Study shows Instacart may be charging some shoppers 20% more for the same product
#dynamicpricing
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Local fans outraged at 2026 World Cup’s ‘inconceivable’ and ‘extortionate’ ticket prices ⚽ 🏟️ 💰
“This is a monumental betrayal of the tradition of the World Cup, ignoring the contribution of supporters to the spectacle it is.”
"What FIFA is doing now, in my opinion, is price gouging, which is illegal in the US."
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"According to private and federal lawsuits, the country’s biggest meat processors have been using a secretive data company to share sensitive information, enabling them to hike up prices and suppress wages for decades.
The revelation comes as meat prices have increased precipitously. Since 1985, the price of ground beef has increased by over 400 percent, far outpacing inflation. Meanwhile, meat-industry workers’ wages have largely stagnated.
Despite growing scrutiny and public outcry over algorithmic price setting of consumer goods and services, critics say meatpackers are settling these collusion lawsuits without admitting guilt or paying substantial penalties, meaning they’re free to keep using the data analytics firm to fix prices and drive down workers’ earnings.
“[The meatpackers] win with their settlements, and never once do the packers have to admit guilt,” independent rancher Mike Callicrate told The Lever. “What’s happened is these law firms now have just gone around filing cases, knowing that they can take money out of the packer’s pocket, while the packer retains the ability to take it right out of the producer’s pocket and the consumer’s pocket.”
And while President Donald Trump has promised to crack down on price fixing in agriculture, he’s financially benefited from some of the companies he’s criticized."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-algorithm-behind-your-20-burger/
Instacart đang áp dụng hệ thống định giá động bị người dùng phản ánh là vô lý và khó hiểu. Tác giả bài viết từng làm việc tại cửa hàng tạp hóa và lĩnh vực AI cho rằng hệ thống này thiếu minh bạch, gây bất tiện cho cả người mua và shipper. #Instacart #DynamicPricing #ĐịnhGiáĐộng #AI #CôngNghệ #ThươngMaiĐiệnTử
DOOFUSES: "My data won't be used for anything evil! I did nothing wrong, so I have nothing to hide!"
THE PEOPLE THEY SHOULD BE HIDING FROM:
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THE PEOPLE THEY SHOULD BE HIDING FROM:
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115696398032409657
"On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis.
Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery.
The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.
The shoppers were volunteers, participating in a study published on Tuesday and organized by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer publication. In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart.
On item after item, they found significant differences. In a Target in North Canton, Ohio, some shoppers were charged $3.59 for a jar of Skippy peanut butter that others could get for $2.99. At a Safeway in Seattle, some people paid $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins while others paid $4.89. And at a Target in St. Paul, Minn., some people were charged $4.59 for a box of Cheerios that others could get for $3.99.
“Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.”
(...)
Groundwork’s findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price, offered to all customers for a predictable period, is breaking down in the digital age. Companies are using sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices quickly in response to competitors’ offers and consumer behavior."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html
#USA #AlgorithmicPricing #DynamicPricing #Insatacart #Inflation #Algorithms
Let's give it up for dynamic pricing!
Study shows that Instacart was charging different amounts for the same items
"School districts and local governments across the country appear to be overpaying for basic supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing, according to a new report based on government data and public records analyzed by the non-profit Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
A school district in Denver, Colorado, would have saved about $1m in 2023 had it been able to negotiate for and lock in the lowest of the platform’s continuously changing prices, according to one estimate cited in the report. Denver public schools, which spent $5.7m with Amazon that year, “could have saved 17 percent” had it “consistently received Amazon’s lowest prices”, the report said.
On 15 August 2023, for example, Denver’s school district placed two separate orders for two bulk cases of dry-erase markers, researchers found. The district paid $114.52 for one, and $149.07 for another.
Under dynamic pricing, companies like Amazon use algorithms to continuously readjust prices based on real-time data. Supporters say these tools help companies adjust to changes in supply and demand, but regulators have warned of their potential to set high prices.
Researchers were able to obtain detailed data on roughly 55,000 purchases of repeatedly-ordered Amazon items from 23 public entities, including Denver’s school district. The items included Elmer’s glue, Amazon-brand copy paper, Lysol cleaning wipes and Crayola crayons. On average, the report found, the localities could have saved 17% had they “consistently received the lowest prices Amazon charged” for those items."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-schools-amazon-algorithmic-pricing
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Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, #DynamicPricing.
As the video says, the humble price tag “was like a little handshake. It represented an agreement, one price for every customer. But now that agreement is breaking.” And we are all going to pay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/dynamic-pricing-algorithms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Shopping has always been a game. Increasingly, it’s being rigged against you.
Many companies now use algorithms to set prices and adjust them throughout the day. This new technology is called dynamic pricing, and businesses use it to jack up prices.
#antipatterns #DynamicPricing
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
#News #Disney #DisneyParks #Disneyland #Dynamicpricing #ThemeParks
https://deadline.com/2025/11/disney-dynamic-pricing-domestic-theme-parks-1236623985/
Advanced data collection turns pricing into a competitive advantage from cost-based and dynamic to value-based, subscription & freemium. Analytics let you segment, optimize in real time, and capture more value.
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Index Exchange introduces dynamic pricing model prioritizing publisher revenue: Index Exchange announced Transparent Dynamic Take Rates on October 23, 2025, adjusting per-impression pricing to optimize publisher yield with 4% revenue gains. https://ppc.land/index-exchange-introduces-dynamic-pricing-model-prioritizing-publisher-revenue/ #DynamicPricing #PublisherRevenue #AdvertisingTech #ProgrammaticAdvertising #YieldOptimization
ahh, but these two have kept it real and their fans love them for it. Top blokes both of them!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Xo9IszZwmGc?si=401Bw-PkTsopdmwC
Mexico's World Cup Opener at Azteca: $1,825 Tickets Unveiled!
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World Cup soccer (football for the rest of the world) will come to New York next year.
They will use dynamic pricing and no price cap for tickets.
Zohran Mamdani has something to say about that.
https://www.zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3lygzlocpj22y
https://bsky.app/profile/theathletic.com/post/3lygxkqc6yk2f
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News Summary: Amazon Loosens KDP Select Rules, AI Conference Announced, WordPress Launches Telex Tool
Libraries and ebooks are back in the news again. This time the story relates to ebooks that are part of the KDP Select program. Huge thanks to Jane Friedman whose invaluable newsletter alerted me to this.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/kdp-select-rules/
#AllAboutAIconference #amazonlibraries #dynamicpricing #indieauthors #KDPselect
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