Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. AI offers immense retail value, but its "surveillance ...

Verizon has been turning to price hikes to drive revenue and profit growth over the past few years. This has boosted churn as customers got fed up with rising prices. Verizon is now down with empty ...

During the past few years, parcel shipping has undergone a dramatic shift in pricing strategies: The industry is moving from static periodic rate adjustments toward dynamic pricing, where rates ...

Maryland leaders introduced legislation Tuesday that would prevent dynamic, surveillance data-driven grocery store pricing. It comes as the retail industry increases its use of electronic shelf labels ...

Between surveillance pricing and discounting, it's harder than ever to figure out if you're getting the best price. My husband, John, and I decided to try a little experiment the other day. We’d just ...

Peak, a popular cooperative climbing game, costs $5. Except it actually costs $8, which is basically $5. And it's on sale right now for just under $5, which is also $5, but if it dropped down to $3 it ...

Instacart said it will no longer allow retailers to run AI pricing tests on its grocery delivery platform after the practice drew widespread scrutiny. A study released earlier this month showed that ...

Pricing is one of the most powerful growth levers a business has, yet it is still one of the most overlooked. While teams spend months refining product and brand, pricing decisions are too often ...

Shares were down around 10% on the news Grocery delivery platform facing criticism over AI tool Study showed some shoppers got prices up to 23% higher Instacart has said retailers set prices Dec 17 ...

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Lawmakers are aiming to crack down on so-called “dynamic pricing” in the wake of a jaw-dropping report showing that grocery delivery app Instacart charged shoppers different prices for the same items ...

If you feel like you’re being nickel-and-dimed everywhere you shop – you probably are. Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same ...