DETROIT – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced H.R. 4966 – the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act to prohibit price gouging by grocery stores, including “personalized price gouging” where stores use consumers’ sensitive personal information against them to raise prices. Across our country, families are facing an affordability crisis and struggling to put food on the table. Grocery prices […]

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    2·
    17 hours ago

    “personalized price gouging” where stores use consumers’ sensitive personal information against them to raise prices.

    Can someone explain this? I pay the price that’s written on the shelf.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Probably in online ordering. There are companies that have used your zip code to raise prices, and it’s been rumored that individualized prices that go into your known profile to raise them have existed.