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This morning, Instacart announced it will end its use of AI-powered pricing experiments on consumers.
As 2025 comes to a close, Americans are taking stock of an economy that looks nothing like what Donald Trump promised.
Following a bombshell report from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union revealing that Instacart uses AI to run pricing experiments on consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday launched an investigation into the company’s pricing schemes.
Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for November shows inflation at 2.7% year over year, with core inflation running at 2.6%.
As the Trump Administration’s policies continue to stretch consumers’ budgets, a new paper from the Groundwork Collaborative calls on the federal government to provide material relief for overburdened homebuyers.
Today’s jobs report — which combines two months of employment data due to the recent government shutdown — shows the United States lost 105,000 jobs in October and gained 64,000 in November, with a total net change of 41,000 jobs lost across the two months.
Alex Jacquez writes: “The war for Warner Bros. Discovery is the latest salvo in the arms race for streaming content and customers, following Walt Disney’s $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019. The experience has become a fragmented, frustrating maze of platforms and price hikes. The average consumer has 4.6 streaming-service subscriptions. Monthly streaming costs have climbed to $69, up 13% from last year, on top of internet bills.”
The American people have lost faith in President Trump’s handling of the economy as prices soar, small business owners struggle, and the labor market continues to soften.
Same product, same store, different prices? Well, a new study finds Instacart hiked prices - sometimes as much as 20% higher.
Instacart is using AI-enabled pricing experiments that are substantially raising the prices of identical products for different customers, according to an investigation by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative.