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How would you feel about paying more for something because an algorithm determined you’d be willing to spend more, for the same item, than someone else?
Bad, right?
Turns out Instacart has been using “algorithmic pricing” to determine the price of items, sometimes increasing the costs of identical products by as much as 23 percent, according to a new report by Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union.
