Would You Add A Car to Your Amazon Cart?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Many see Amazon as a reliable source of consumer goods from toilet paper to wireless headphones. But Sean McLain reports that the “everything store” is now betting that consumers will also pick up much bigger items when given the opportunity. Plus, Imani Moise reports on why fintech company Block is sharing its version of a credit store with customers. Patrick Coffee hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipopla sauce and Ameta cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:23.9	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025. I'm Patrick Coffee for the Wall Street Journal.
0:32.1	Do you know your credit score? No, I mean the other one. A popular fintech company is now planning to show customers how it rates them.
0:40.5	We dive into what to know about the new score.
0:43.1	And yesterday was Cyber Monday.
0:45.1	When many of our listeners turned to Amazon for convenience shopping on essential gifts like a car?
0:51.2	Yes, the Everything Store hopes this will be the year that you drop a $50,000 family sedan into your cart
0:58.0	right next to that monthly supply of floss picks.
1:03.4	But first, FinTech Company Block exists outside of the traditional banking system.
1:08.5	That's kind of the point.
1:10.3	Now, however, the Jack Dorsey-led
1:12.6	company will let its customers access the internal data it uses to determine whether or not
1:17.4	to approve loans. Join a reporter Amani Moise told our host, Katie Dayton, why the company
1:23.6	decided to make this move towards something resembling transparency.
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