Amazon prepares to turn off all Dash reorder buttons around the world

The heydey of ordering products by button has come and gone – in a dash, as it were. — dpa

Amazon's Dash buttons, designed to let us quickly reorder products with literally a push of a button, once seemed like the future of online consumerism.

Now, they are days away from becoming history. After first announcing it would stop selling new buttons, the tech giant is now preparing to turn off all buttons around the world.