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Instacart's AI-enabled pricing experiments may be inflating your grocery bill
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoRelated: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245833
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205041
- MangoToupe 11mo agoIf you use instacart at all, something tells me you're already divorced from the concept of affordable groceries
- lacoolj 11mo agoThis is a bigger problem than just Instacart. The prices are much harder to revert after they've been established (as we've seen since 2020).
- mrkstu 11mo agoMy wife is a travel agent. Lately she has been telling clients not to look at fares while she is looking as the dynamic pricing will jack up the fares she can get for them if they look at the same routes she is.