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A months-long investigation by the nonprofit organizations Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found that identical grocery items on Instacart could differ in price by as much as 23% from one customer to the next.
A new investigation from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union reveals that Instacart, enabled by the artificial intelligence pricing software Eversight, is running large-scale, hidden price experiments on unsuspecting customers.
“The findings, which were published this morning by Consumer Reports and the Groundwork Collective, a progressive policy group, highlight how so-called dynamic pricing is spreading across the economy as companies use sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices in real time.”
New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT finds that prices on many of this season’s most popular holiday gifts are climbing faster than Santa up the chimney, with prices rising an average of 26% since last year — nearly nine times overall inflation.
A new investigation from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union reveals that Instacart, enabled by the artificial intelligence pricing software Eversight, is running large-scale, hidden price experiments on unsuspecting customers.
This year, Black Friday put many shoppers in the red.
I think this is indicative of a really stressed American consumer. They are ultimately trying to grapple with higher prices as we head into the holiday season either to afford Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas gifts under the tree or just trying to make sure that they can make rent."
Last week, the Federal Reserve released the November 2025 'Beige Book’ which gives an up-to-date look at the economy — including jobs, consumer spending, and inflation — across all 12 Federal Reserve Districts.
“I think it’s possible that this is headed back to cost-based pricing,” said Owens, whose book Gouged about the new era of pricing releases next year. “It’s the way companies priced for decades … There is a world where the outcome is transparent, public, predictable pricing.”
Those of us who are “too poor to afford life, but too high-income to get help,” as Elizabeth Pancotti put it, “are caught between a plutonomy that pushes prices higher and a lower class that, under the Trump administration, is rapidly having the social safety net pulled out from under them."