A new book by Lindsay Owens
The End of a Fair Price – and What That Means for Your Wallet
Available now
The economy added just 29,000 jobs in September. Health care accounted for nearly 17,000 of them, or 58% of all jobs added this month. Over the past year, the sector has accounted for 75% of total job gains.
Shoppers know the deck is stacked in favor of corporations, and they’re tired of being spied on and ripped off.
A reckoning is long overdue. In "Gouged", @owenslindsay1 lays out the path forward: the Shoppers’ Bill of Rights.
Corporations have gotten really good at ripping us off – from the grocery aisle to our online shopping carts to the gas pump. The whole game is rigged.
These are the tricks and schemes @owenslindsay1 lays out in "Gouged", available everywhere now.
From the @nypost: If it feels like you’re being nickel-and-dimed in every aspect of your life, it’s not your imagination.
@owenslindsay1 breaks down why surveillance pricing is so nefarious: "It's the intersection of two things we hate: being spied on & being overcharged.”
We're in a new era where prices aren't set by how much it costs to make a good or to bring it to market.
"This is about a new corporate credo: The right price is the one that they can get you to fork over."
@owenslindsay1 on @morningjoe showing how Big Biz is ripping you off.
Are you feeling watched as you leave your data wherever you go and gouged as prices are getting ever more individualized? It’s not just a feeling. It’s a reality as @owenslindsay1 shows in her new book.
Very excited for this new book! @owenslindsay1 has spent years investigating and exposing price gouging. This is a terrific and must-read book for everyone interested in an affordable, fair economy.
Talk is cheap. The patent office doesn’t lie.
@Walmart's CEO swears they won't use surveillance pricing on its shoppers. But its own patent applications tell a different story: Walmart is building an arsenal of new technologies designed to squeeze consumers.
September jobs report is out. Here’s what jumped out for me.
- Economy added just 29K jobs, a third of the expected 90K
- Health care is creating most of the jobs
- We actually lost jobs in July
- Black unemployment jumped from 6% to 7% (labor force did grow though)
- Hourly
Very cool to see. Thanks @Morning_Joe!
Putting food on the table and a roof over your head is hard enough without greedy corporations squeezing you for all you’re worth, writes @owenslindsay1 of @Groundwork.
Companies can now estimate just how much we’re willing to spend wherever we shop, carrying what they learn about us from every debit-card swipe and “add to cart” click from one retailer to the next, @Groundwork’s @owenslindsay1 explains in the first commentary of Deep Dive:
In a newly published excerpt from @owenslindsay1's new book, Gouged, she lays out how companies can coordinate to choke off competition, bring supply and demand to heel, degrade product quality, and overcharge consumers.
Exclusively in @zeteo_news.
Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate "Gouged" and a massively successful launch week.
Special thanks to @RonanFarrow and @SenWarren for joining @owenslindsay1 on stage to talk all things corporate greed, gouging, and what we can do about it.
What a night.
Stubhub was just caught charging people different prices for the same ticket to the same show.
As @owenslindsay1 told @NBCNews: “It’s not the resale ticket holder who’s getting that money. It’s StubHub, who’s charging some concertgoers more just to see their favorite show.”
