A Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart — which promotes itself as the nation’s largest third-party grocery delivery service, and delivers from retailers like Costco, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Safeway, and Target charges some people significantly more for the exact same grocery item because ... they can.

CR volunteers who repeatedly shopped the same products at the exact same time online saw prices on some products differ by as much as 23 percent. Based on the average variations they saw, for a household of four that could translate into a difference of about $1,200 a year.

Some products were offered at as many as five different prices, with variations ranging from as little as 7 cents to as much as $2.56 per item.

Call on the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to investigate Instacart’s pricing tactics, and hold them accountable for any unfair practices.

Sign the petition: https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251209-mtpr-instacart?e=75157c649a2853b11d823013bbd29692&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nb_20251209_mtpr_instacart&n=4&v=8557

#ConsumerProtection #ConsumerReports #InstaCart #PriceGouging

"According to Tom, the key issue is not whether SATA SSDs are technologically outdated, but how much supply they still represent. He points out that roughly 20% of Amazon’s top SSD bestsellers are still SATA-based, with Samsung drives making up a notable portion of that list. Pulling that volume out of the market, even gradually, reduces overall SSD availability, which in turn puts upward pressure on pricing for both SATA and NVMe drives."

#pricegouging #ssd #ai

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instacart-grocery-prices

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #pricegouging #instacart #grocery #business #economy #finance

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instacart-grocery-prices

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #pricegouging #instacart #grocery #business #economy #finance

A Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart — which promotes itself as the nation’s largest third-party grocery delivery service, and delivers from retailers like Costco, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Safeway, and Target charges some people significantly more for the exact same grocery item because ... they can.

CR volunteers who repeatedly shopped the same products at the exact same time online saw prices on some products differ by as much as 23 percent. Based on the average variations they saw, for a household of four that could translate into a difference of about $1,200 a year.

Some products were offered at as many as five different prices, with variations ranging from as little as 7 cents to as much as $2.56 per item.

Call on the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to investigate Instacart’s pricing tactics, and hold them accountable for any unfair practices.

Sign the petition: https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251209-mtpr-instacart?e=75157c649a2853b11d823013bbd29692&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nb_20251209_mtpr_instacart&n=4&v=8557

#ConsumerProtection #ConsumerReports #InstaCart #PriceGouging

@sillymickel.bsky.social and take part in this: the #BigTechWalkout2025

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

Defund the #Broligarchy ! Starve them of data and protect yourself from #surveillance , #pricegouging and #ads in the process.

#privacy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #DigitalExodus

@sillymickel.bsky.social and take part in this: the #BigTechWalkout2025

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

Defund the #Broligarchy ! Starve them of data and protect yourself from #surveillance , #pricegouging and #ads in the process.

#privacy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #DigitalExodus

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-day-of-free-solar-power-even-if-they-dont-have-solar-panels

Good to see the ALP making a step in the right direction to tackle Australia's cost of living crisis.
It's only fair that the benefits of free electricity from residential rooftop solar are shared with all consumers.

Next:
- Investigate price-gouging for "network fees" and "poles & wires" charges by electricity wholesalers.
- Make electricity companies pay households a fair price for putting electricity they generated with their own rooftop solar into the grid. Currently, electricity companies take it for free or pay households a miserly feed-in rate. Some other countries have regulations to make power companies pay households equal rates for "give and take".

#AusPol #SolarPower #Solar #RooftopSolar #Renewables #PriceGouging #CostOfLiving

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-day-of-free-solar-power-even-if-they-dont-have-solar-panels

Good to see the ALP making a step in the right direction to tackle Australia's cost of living crisis.
It's only fair that the benefits of free electricity from residential rooftop solar are shared with all consumers.

Next:
- Investigate price-gouging for "network fees" and "poles & wires" charges by electricity wholesalers.
- Make electricity companies pay households a fair price for putting electricity they generated with their own rooftop solar into the grid. Currently, electricity companies take it for free or pay households a miserly feed-in rate. Some other countries have regulations to make power companies pay households equal rates for "give and take".

#AusPol #SolarPower #Solar #RooftopSolar #Renewables #PriceGouging #CostOfLiving

Kaiser Strike!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pi4TWzrb0Go

Kaiser workers are sick of executives’ greed. They just launched the biggest strike of the year.

#USA #Kaiser #HealthInsurance #PriceGouging #LowPay #Strike #Suffering #Shareholders #Billionaires #Union

Kaiser Strike!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pi4TWzrb0Go

Kaiser workers are sick of executives’ greed. They just launched the biggest strike of the year.

#USA #Kaiser #HealthInsurance #PriceGouging #LowPay #Strike #Suffering #Shareholders #Billionaires #Union

welp… so the reason #Disney back-peddaled is because they didn’t think fucking with #JimmyKimmel would unleash a #BoycottDisney. they never thought how any backlash would mess-up the #streaming #priceGouging they’ve relied on, to cook-up profit margins of the millions upon millions users they’ve never had:

❝ Disney may announce a Disney Plus price increase tomorrow https://www.theverge.com/news/783236/disney-may-announce-a-disney-plus-price-increase-tomorrow

USA media companies believed their own hype of billions of trapped paying users, esp Disney.

FAFO.

welp… so the reason #Disney back-peddaled is because they didn’t think fucking with #JimmyKimmel would unleash a #BoycottDisney. they never thought how any backlash would mess-up the #streaming #priceGouging they’ve relied on, to cook-up profit margins of the millions upon millions users they’ve never had:

❝ Disney may announce a Disney Plus price increase tomorrow https://www.theverge.com/news/783236/disney-may-announce-a-disney-plus-price-increase-tomorrow

USA media companies believed their own hype of billions of trapped paying users, esp Disney.

FAFO.