A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts

That sparked a funny idea in my head, what if we tricked product managers industry wide to follow KPIs and A/B tests that resulted in a better user experience for consumers, instead of experiences that coincidentally slightly upticked "engagement".

Because it seems like this mystery shopper is already doing that.

TL;DR - it's a google bot

Such a bot could be used to damage ad tracking

This bot is simply trying to get the final price (with tax and shipping) which is ridiculous because e-commerce storefronts should do that in the first place without going through the whole checkout process.

I always have found that kind of shady but it's probably known to increase conversions.

What I found interesting is that this an open attack vector for e-commerces. Multiple bots can hit a website and start adding items and start the checkout process. This basically creates an unprecedented cart behavior data influx that ruins any possible usage for data coming from legit customers. Maybe cleaning the data wouldn't be that hard but if someone knows what they are doing they can really make it hard (separate IPs, emails and cart behavior)

I doubt Shopify or Magento have anything to prevent this.

Google.

Saved you a click.