A new book by Lindsay Owens
The End of a Fair Price – and What That Means for Your Wallet
Available now
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American shoppers are fed up—with high prices AND the opaque, manipulative ways that corporate America sets them.
Thrilled to talk with @HeathaT in @guardian on why I wrote “Gouged”—and how a Shoppers’ Bill of Rights can help us fight for a fair price.
@BLS_gov Her org @Groundwork has introduced a new "Shoppers Bill of Rights" that asks Congress to set new rules for how companies can set prices and use your data and AI
@BLS_gov Buckle up, because companies are about to gouge Americans further, and blame the Iran war, Owens says:
Something changed in corporate America in recent years - companies that once cut costs to the bone to deliver low, low prices were trying to raise them instead.
@owenslindsay1 details the shift in "Gouged"
Out this morning from @owenslindsay1, @NiaMLaw, and me @Groundwork!
E-commerce, AI, and decades of corporate consolidation have remade how we shop, and all of the leverage has landed on one side of the checkout counter. It’s time for a reckoning about what shoppers are owed in
As documented in our recent @Groundwork report, The Hidden Costs of AI:
🚨 NEW: Big Business rewrote the rules in its favor. We’re rewriting them for shoppers.
Our Shoppers’ Bill of Rights lays out 12 basic protections against hidden fees, pricing games, and the corporate tricks driving up everyday costs.
Lindsay Owens is so good at calling out corporate bullshit that when she does, CEOs of the largest companies on earth have to write public letters.
Do you ever wonder why, in the times of space exploration & AI, we still don’t have a lightbulb that lasts for more than a few months?
That’s because light bulb companies have purposefully made their product worse.
Why? @owenslindsay1 on the @weeklyshowpod explains.
"Gouged" isn't out until next week but it's already helping "spark" conversation around @Walmart's Sparky chatbot, and delivering for consumers.
@Walmart just announced their "promises" around pricing, but make no mistake: they're cleaning up their spill on aisle four.
In her new book, “Gouged: The End of a Fair Price, and What That Means for Your Wallet”, @Groundwork Executive Director @owenslindsay1 pulls back the curtain on the tricks, traps, and high-tech tools corporations use to squeeze more money from consumers. From surveillance pricing
No lesbian bars, mask mandates, or clown school. Just corporations using increasingly sophisticated technology to figure out exactly how much money they can extract from you. Sorry!
Our @owenslindsay1's essay in @bostonglobe.
We didn’t have to “leap” to much. Walmart spells out this illustrative example in its own patent application.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/3b/d3/a3/2eb7a56dd1e240/US11687872.pdf
Imagine scanning a can of tuna in your grocery cart, and suddenly your next item, mayo, now has a HIGHER PRICE BUT ONLY FOR YOU.
Walmart just patented tech that could make this surveillance pricing possible.
@owenslindsay1 breaks down these corporate pricing tricks.
