#price-discrimination tag

AG James, Dems want to ban prices based on personal algorithms

New York's Attorney General supports legislation to ban algorithmic pricing based on personal data and dynamic digital price tags in retail and grocery stores.

EU data protection

fromwww.amny.com

fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.

One Fair Price': How Letitia James, NY pols are looking to stop algorithmic pricing known to inflate prices on what you like to buy | amNewYork

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing legislation to ban algorithmic pricing that charges different prices to individual consumers based on their personal data.

Privacy technologies

The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data To Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian

NYC politics

fromGothamist

AG James, Dems want to ban prices based on personal algorithms

New York's Attorney General supports legislation to ban algorithmic pricing based on personal data and dynamic digital price tags in retail and grocery stores.

EU data protection

fromwww.amny.com

fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.

One Fair Price': How Letitia James, NY pols are looking to stop algorithmic pricing known to inflate prices on what you like to buy | amNewYork

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing legislation to ban algorithmic pricing that charges different prices to individual consumers based on their personal data.

Privacy technologies

The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data To Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian

more#algorithmic-pricing

E-Commerce

fromBusiness Insider

The secret reason your delivery order costs more than your neighbor's

Companies increasingly use personalized data and algorithms to charge different prices to different customers for identical products, often without transparency.

Law

fromBBC News

A small US grocer is calling out the lower prices at big chains

Price discrimination by large suppliers against small retailers strains independent businesses across multiple sectors, prompting renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act to protect smaller competitors.

Philosophy

fromApaonline

Will Pricing Algorithms Spell the End of the Fair Market Price?

Personalized pricing algorithms use consumer data to estimate individual willingness to pay and adjust prices accordingly, raising concerns about fairness and transparency in commerce.

#instacart

fromsfist.com

E-Commerce

SF-Based Instacart Dumps Its AI Price-Adjusting' Tool That Charged Some Customers 23% More for the Same Items

fromFuturism

E-Commerce

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

E-Commerce

Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices

fromsfist.com

E-Commerce

SF-Based Instacart Dumps Its AI Price-Adjusting' Tool That Charged Some Customers 23% More for the Same Items

fromFuturism

E-Commerce

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

E-Commerce

Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices

more#instacart

fromMarTech

How to design holiday promotions that work | MarTech

Very few product or service businesses escape the kind of seasonality that forces active engagement with the market through promotions, offers or specials. Right now, we're all bombarded with deals on everything, including digital services and B2B SaaS. After all, nothing captures the holiday spirit quite like an extra terabyte of cloud storage. It's a surge of activity that's hard to ignore - especially for someone who pays close attention to how these offers are put together.

Marketing

US politics

5 months ago

USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to SNAP Recipients

USDA barred retailers from offering discounts exclusively to SNAP recipients, citing the Equal Treatment Rule and prohibiting special pricing without a waiver.

Marketing

fromBusiness Matters

6 months ago

The AA's loyalty problem: sixty-four years and still taken for a ride

Longtime customers are charged far more than new customers through disguised "discounts" and deliberate price discrimination that exploits loyalty and customer inertia.

Marketing tech