You might think the price tag on your favorite brand of cereal is fixed when you toss it into your cart. Think again. Across ...
Economic forces aside, though, your neighborhood supermarket could be employing a strategy called dynamic pricing that ...
If your grocery bill feels unpredictable lately, it may not be just inflation at work. A new investigation suggests that some ...
Dynamic pricing has already reshaped how we book airline tickets and hotel rooms. Now, as digital price tags appear on supermarket shelves, some experts are asking whether grocery prices could ever fo ...
If you feel like you’re being nickel-and-dimed everywhere you shop – you probably are. Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same ...
As electronic shelf labels spread through grocery stores across the United States, consumers are voicing fears that prices could shift mid-shop – a concern that’s already captured regulators’ ...
As founder and CTO of BetterBasket, working on grocery pricing, I’ve had the opportunity to experience firsthand the operational burden and obscurity that characterizes price setting within a grocery ...
Families and shoppers say their grocery bills still feel painfully high, and while experts say that frustration is ...
A Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative 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 ...
At one Seattle grocery store, identical baskets ranged from roughly $114 to $124, a spread of more than nine dollars on a ...