Amazon Is Nudging Customers to Buy Less

The e-commerce giant is discouraging extraneous consumption, for now.

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The pandemic has many of us acting in unusual ways, and the world’s largest e-commerce company is no exception. In a stunning reprieve from the prerogatives of capitalism, Amazon.com Inc. has begun discouraging users from buying things they don’t need.