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The arsenal of technologies the company is building that can be used to profile and track us should worry every American who is concerned about their privacy and pocketbooks.
The retailer that once offered “Everyday Low Prices” is building technology that can be used to track, probe, and squeeze shoppers. New Report Released After Walmart’s C-Suite Directly Attacks Groundwork’s CEO Lindsay Owens.
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.