Popular food delivery service instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling. The collaborative report involved enrolling 437 shoppers across four cities where individual shoppers would add the same items to their carts in the instacart app from the same store. The platform offered as many as five different sales prices for the exact same grocery item, in the exact same store, at the exact same time A dozen lucerne eggs sold for $3.99, $4.28, $4.59, $4.69, and $4.79 on instacart at a safeway store in washington, d.c. A tiktok creator (@georgia_bassmaster) recently exposed walmart in a series of videos comparing products in different sections of the store to show price discrepancies.
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