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McDonald’s tells customers AI doesn’t set prices while boasting to investors that its pricing tools can “limit customer resistance” and “personalize with even greater precision.”
Owens’ New Book Already Prompting Corporate Defenses from Walmart, McDonald’s After Exposing Deceptive Pricing Strategies.
Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative and the author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price--and What That Means for Your Wallet (Viking, 2026) talks about the proliferation of "junk fees" and the hidden risks of loyalty programs, plus the use of data and algorithms to hike prices.
Few sectors driving job gains, long term unemployment elevated, and wages trail inflation.
As the Groundwork Collaborative has shown, the biggest winners from TrumpRx are the Trump family and Big Pharma. Donald Trump Jr. is on the board of drug platform BlinkRx, which benefits from the regime’s promotion of direct-to-patient medicine sales.
Mike talks with Lindsay Owens, president and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative and author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price and What That Means for Your Wallet, about how new technologies are changing what companies know about consumers—and how much they can charge them.
Our guest this week is Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative and author of the new book Gouged: The End of a Fair Price — and What That Means for Your Wallet.
Lindsay Owens, President and CEO, Groundwork Collaborative.
Just days before the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative released its 12-point Shoppers’ Bill of Rights—a proposed legislative framework for new consumer protections needed in an era where technology is outpacing regulation—Walmart CEO John Furner posted an open letter explaining the company’s pricing policies.