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 them, according to an explosive study.

At a Target store in North Canton, Ohio, the wildly popular grocery app charged a customer $2.99 for Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter one day in September – while other Instacart users that day paid as much as $3.59 for the same jar picked up from the same location, according to the study.

At a Safeway supermarket in Seattle, shoppers using Instacart paid five different prices for the same Oscar Mayer Deli Turkey: $3.99, $4.31, $4.59, $4.69 and $4.89 — a range that spanned a whopping 23% between the lowest and highest markup.


The same pattern emerged at Target and Safeway stores across four cities, according to Groundwork Collaborative and Consumer Reports, which used 437 shoppers in its survey, ordering groceries off the Instacart app for in-store pickup.

It’s the latest example of so-called “dynamic pricing” — the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms — that is nickel-and-diming consumers, even as relentless inflation has sparked an affordability crisis.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-charging-different-prices-on-same-grocery-staples-in-same-stores-study

Men strive to make life stress-less, as we know what stress means. Women seek to make life stressful, as they've rarely known stress.

Wives....women

"Why is everyone so mean to me?"

Me asf

Scoot wishes you all a very merry Christmas.

Ended up getting food poisoning for Christmas. Every time I've gotten food poisoning, it was from eating out at a restaurant or fast food chain. I should have known better than to gamble with (((Sysco foods))) and the shitty non staffing now and days. No more eating out anymore. And I barely do it anyway. Merry Christmas, yall, from my toilet to yours.

Does this mean we get a hand-in-toilet Christmas special picture..?

Merry Christmas.

The wife is making Christmas lasagna for the family tonight. Home made and from scratch.
She has this really good method of slicing the garlic with a razorblade so the garlic liquifies in a pan. It's a very good sauce. Also, gonna can the sauce tomorrow for either next year or just great 3 meat pasta sauce for the kids. Nothing is wasted. And the aluminum pans go into the scrap pile.

lower your tone, wagies

https://youtu.be/hN6KOZTyl_A

Real footage of Sand Stepper during Christmas