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Uncovered: Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. (video.twimg.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51297738

A Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”

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[–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

this is why we can't have nice things

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    It's just pure and simple late stage capitalism. They've captured every lever of power, and are doing what this system rewards: squeeze as much as possible from the "market" (aka you and me) and fuck any other consequences.

    We need to restructure the carrots and sticks, but first need to cut out the tumor.

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