If you spend any time on TikTok, you've probably noticed that there are a lot of videos about

amazing things you can buy.

There are unboxing videos where people show off all the new clothes they bought.

Okay, guys, so I just received two very exciting packages and I'm going to do a little

haul.

There are videos about cat toys.

We got this flabbing toy from my crazy cat, let's see what it does.

So much stuff, you probably didn't even know existed, but now I feel like you desperately

need.

This is a human sized dog bed that comes with its own blanket and it's machine washable

so it's easy to clean this.

In the past, if you wanted to buy what you saw, you had to leave TikTok and find the product

online.

But now TikTok is making it easier to buy stuff directly on its app.

And so what TikTok is trying to do is cut out that middleman, they're trying to cut out

Amazon and say, okay, you discovered this product here, well, you can actually just buy

it here.

And you know, with a click of a button, make it so easy for them to do that.

And so that's exactly what TikTok is trying to do.

That's our colleague Megan Babrowski.

She says TikTok has big ambitions when it comes to online shopping.

I think they're sort of looking for their next big bet and they sort of see it e-commerce

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