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Opinion: Block the Warner Bros. sale, break up ‘Big Streaming’ — and give us lower prices

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.”

December 12, 2025 MarketWatch

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Wreck the Halls: As Holiday Prices Rise and AI Pricing Schemes Run Rampant, Consumers Put Trump on the Naughty List

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.

December 12, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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Study: Instacart AI Hiking Prices As Much As 20%

Same product, same store, different prices? Well, a new study finds Instacart hiked prices - sometimes as much as 20% higher.

December 12, 2025 CNN This Morning

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Instacart’s AI pricing experiment drives up costs for some shoppers, study says

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.

December 12, 2025 Fox Business

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What Third Federal Interest Rate Cut Means for Your Mortgage

"Trump’s reckless handling of the economy has backed the Fed into a corner—stuck between rising costs and a weakening job market, it has no choice but to try and offer what little relief they can to consumers via rate cuts,” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative.

December 11, 2025 Newsweek

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Want the same milk and eggs? Instacart might charge you more than your neighbor

The investigation from Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, found that some identical products were priced differently from one customer to the next—sometimes by as much as 23%.

December 11, 2025 Fast Company

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‘Dynamic pricing’ used to raise costs of everything from food and Uber rides to museum visits

Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same stores without telling them, according to an explosive study released by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative earlier this week.

December 11, 2025 New York Post

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Lawmakers mull action on ‘dynamic’ AI-powered pricing in wake of ‘shocking’ Instacart report

Members of Congress “were displeased, shocked, engaged and ready to consider legislative and oversight action,” Lindsay Owens, executive director of consumer advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative told The Post on Thursday, after meeting with 15 lawmakers.

December 11, 2025 New York Post

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Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says

The study from nonprofits Groundwork Collaborative and Consumer Reports followed more than 400 shoppers in four cities and found that Instacart sometimes offered as many as five different sales prices for the exact same item, at the same store and on the same day.

December 11, 2025 Los Angeles Times

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Instacart takes dynamic grocery pricing to new levels

“Instacart is quietly running pricing experiments on millions of shoppers during the worst grocery affordability crisis in a generation, and it’s costing households as much as $1200 a year,” said Lindsey Owens, executive director at Groundwork Collaborative. “They have turned the simple act of buying groceries into a high-tech game of pricing roulette.”

December 10, 2025 Quartz