{"id":2116325,"date":"2025-12-24T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/?p=2116325"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:28:54","slug":"inside-dynamic-pricing-how-algorithms-are-secretly-draining-your-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/2025\/12\/24\/inside-dynamic-pricing-how-algorithms-are-secretly-draining-your-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Dynamic Pricing: How Algorithms Are Secretly Draining Your Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: <b>2025-12-24 03:02:09<\/b><\/p>\n\n<div id=\"wrap_aoa47c17\" class=\"aoa_wrap \">\n  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"750\" height=\"440\"\r\n  \t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width:750px;height:440px;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPDp4Xe_NjQ?enablejsapi=1\"\r\n  \t\t\t\t\tframeborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n    <div id=\"aoa47c17\" class=\"aoa_overlay \">\n        <div class=\"aoa_content\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\"><img style=\"margin:0 auto;max-height:400px;\" data-src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n        <span id=\"close_aoa47c17\" class=\"aoa_close\"><\/span>\n        <a id=\"close_btn_aoa47c17\" class=\"aoa_close_btn\" onclick=\"setVisibility('aoa47c17', 'none');\">&times;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Instacart got caught charging different people different prices for the same groceries\u2014up to 23% more. The FTC got involved. They just stopped.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what happened and why it&#8217;s bigger than groceries.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCES<br \/>\n[1] Groundwork Collaborative Study &#8211; &#8220;Same Cart, Different Price&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pND6PFa3Rn\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/groundworkcollaborative.org\/work\/instacart\/\">Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart\u2019s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart\u2019s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout&#8221; &#8212; Groundwork Collaborative\" src=\"https:\/\/groundworkcollaborative.org\/work\/instacart\/embed\/#?secret=4eALUi363i#?secret=pND6PFa3Rn\" data-secret=\"pND6PFa3Rn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[2] Consumer Reports Investigation<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/money\/questionable-business-practices\/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490\/<\/p>\n<p>[3] Instacart Ends AI Pricing Tests (CNBC, Dec 22, 2025)<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/22\/instacart-ai-pricing-tests-increased-costs.html<br \/>\n[4] FTC Launches Probe (CNBC, Dec 17, 2025)<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/17\/instacart-sec-probe-pricing-tool.html<\/p>\n<p>[5] NY Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/2025\/attorney-general-james-warns-new-yorkers-about-algorithmic-pricing-new-law-takes<\/p>\n<p>[6] FTC Surveillance Pricing Study<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/ftc-surveillance-pricing-study-indicates-wide-range-personal-data-used-set-individualized-consumer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 2025-12-24 03:02:09 Instacart got caught charging different people different prices for the same groceries\u2014up to 23% more. The FTC got involved. They just stopped. Here&#8217;s what happened and why it&#8217;s bigger than groceries. SOURCES [1] Groundwork Collaborative Study &#8211; &#8220;Same Cart, Different Price&#8221; Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart\u2019s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-eating","traffikrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116327,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116325\/revisions\/2116327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenhousetucson.com\/chinese-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}