Uncovered: Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51297738
A Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”
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this is why we can't have nice things
It's just pure and simple late stage capitalism. They've captured every lever of power, and are doing what this system rewards: squeeze as much as possible from the "market" (aka you and me) and fuck any other consequences.
We need to restructure the carrots and sticks, but first need to cut out the tumor.
I think airlines do this since a while.