10/15/2026
AI Surveillance pricing!
We stopped this.
Inside Look at How Retailers Use Your Data for ‘Price Experiments’ Watch this Today Show video.
https://www.today.com/video/how-companies-charge-you-more-based-on-your-shopping-data-270779461790
In the current world of AI, companies are collecting your information, income level, assets, etc. and using that information to change the prices they charge you to buy items in stores to whatever they believe you are willing to pay.
I voted to ban this price gouging practice, and it is now illegal in Michigan to do surveillance pricing.
Across retail, travel, food and more, some companies are charging consumers different prices for the same products and services. Lindsay Owens, author of the new book “Gouged: The End of a Fair Price and What That Menas for Your Wallet,” says companies overcharge by using “price experiments”...