If we want to be pedantic, we could say that your automation is like a particularly aggressive DoorDash driver; runs into the store, grabs all items as fast as possible, and is perhaps rude to the checkout girl on the way out. And if you scale this to checking N vendors - and only buying from one - you fall right into the bad behavior.

I’m not sure if your bot is like this, but my understanding is that many of them are - and they interfere with the other shoppers and generally change the economics of it.

I think you are on the right side of this, but you are almost indistinguishable from the negative case.