A new book by Lindsay Owens
The End of a Fair Price – and What That Means for Your Wallet
Available now
Your AI agent may not be working for you – in fact, it might be ripping you off.
Our @owenslindsay1 joined @TheStalwart & @tracyalloway on the Odd Lots podcast to warn about trusting AI agents to do your shopping.
A new study tested over 325,000 agents with shocking results.
"Gouged" named a bestseller in Oklahoma by @TulsaPeople!
Thanks to everyone who's reading! And a big thanks to @AspenIdeas for having me in Tulsa earlier this month to talk about the book.
Get your copy: https://bit.ly/GougedPRH
DoorDash + Instacart know an alarming amount about how we shop. A merger would put that data – and the technology to exploit it – under one roof.
"It would be obviously illegal and consolidate an alarming amount of surveillance and pricing technology,” @owenslindsay1 told
Our @owenslindsay sat down with @1a to discuss the myriad of ways companies – big and small – are manipulating the the amount consumers pay for their products.
.@Groundwork is warning that @DoorDash's $17 billion acquisition of @Instacart could give it unprecedented power to hike prices.
Instacart has already tested charging shoppers up to 23% more for identical groceries.
Together, they'd control 77% of U.S. delivery-platform
A @Groundwork Collaborative report details how soaring funeral costs, probate fees, and inadequate life insurance can push American families into debt after a death.
🚨 NEW from @Groundwork: Private equity is rolling up funeral homes, and families are paying the price on the worst days of their lives.
@zoezoe_butler lays out how the business of dying is burying us:
Halloween candy prices are scary high thanks to Trump's economic policies and corporate profiteering (we're looking at you Hershey's 👀).
“Ultimately, it’s families and it’s kids who suffer because Halloween is really all about them, or should be,” @EmDiVito told @HuffPost.
NEW: The average funeral now costs more than $7,700.
One survey found that the share of Americans taking on funeral debt rose from 14% in 2024 to 37% in 2025.
I wrote about what's driving these costs and how to protect families for @Groundwork https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/death-debt-and-paperwork/
Tech is fueling price gouging.
Prices are on the rise, and according to the author of "Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet", @owenslindsay1, CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative, that's not just due to inflation and other market pressures.
Americans should be able to book a flight, order a ride, or walk into their grocery store and know that the price they see is the same price their neighbor sees.
It's past time to give American consumers a peek into these companies' pricing black boxes.
Adam's playbook for merger reviews is to just pay for the competitive analysis he wants.
Corporations are getting called out for using technology to set personalized prices & squeeze more money out of consumers.
Some insist they're pricing products, not people.
If that's true, they should have no problem opening their pricing black boxes to the FTC.
Rohit Chopra knows the makings of an economic crisis when he sees one. And Chopra — a top consumer protection watchdog under Biden who was ousted by Trump — thinks the current administration is ill-prepared to handle the fallout of a possible AI bubble.
oh good, so customers will get to choose between Instacart-DoorDash’s surveillance pricing or Walmart’s surveillance pricing. what robust competition!
