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Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices
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Link: https://truthout.org/articles/some-states-are-targeting-a-tactic-corporations-use-to-raise-your-grocery-prices/

One online grocery shopper got charged $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins, while another — buying from the same store at the same time — got charged $4.89. A consumer watchdog detected this price discrepancy during an investigation last September in Seattle. The grocery app Instacart used an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm that charged customers differently for each item by as much as…

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Bluegrass_Addict lemmy.ca Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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stop using apps and websites to order shit .. seriously. you're only screwing yourself over
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