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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 โ 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 โ 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.
Itโs the latest example of so-called โdynamic pricingโ โ the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms โ 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
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 โ 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 โ 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.
Itโs the latest example of so-called โdynamic pricingโ โ the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms โ 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
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havenโt seen the digital prices tags irl yet but Iโm sure theyโre coming
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Some People are out there stuffing themselves
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tired of the doom so let me tell you guys about a neighbor of mine
weโll call her Flo, sheโs in her mid 90s. she drives, gets around and has the spirit of someone half her age. earlier this year Flo fell & broke her hip, which at her age can easily be game over. there was an extended hospital stay, multiple surgeries and months of rehab. fast forward to today and sheโs out Christmas shopping for her family, like the fall never happened. Flo is properly playing the game, we can all learn from Flo ๐
weโll call her Flo, sheโs in her mid 90s. she drives, gets around and has the spirit of someone half her age. earlier this year Flo fell & broke her hip, which at her age can easily be game over. there was an extended hospital stay, multiple surgeries and months of rehab. fast forward to today and sheโs out Christmas shopping for her family, like the fall never happened. Flo is properly playing the game, we can all learn from Flo ๐
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There's a feller at my church who just turned 96. His advice for longevity is "try to be nice to people and keep moving"
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Gotta say this is one of the more accurate maps Iโve seen but they forgot Cocaine Florida/North Cuba
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Blackrock CEO Fink Is "Suddenly" Sitting Beside Witkoff And Kushner At The Ukraine Negotiating Table.
๐SOURCE โก๏ธ Disclose.tv
Related: 8/5/24 โ BlackRock has asked that Ukrainian soldiers not be buried on the land it owns in Ukraine.
5/12 โ It's All a Trap (Prod. Pendo46) [X] โ Rap by TheMcgwire / @PsyopDaily
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Related: 8/5/24 โ BlackRock has asked that Ukrainian soldiers not be buried on the land it owns in Ukraine.
5/12 โ It's All a Trap (Prod. Pendo46) [X] โ Rap by TheMcgwire / @PsyopDaily
Well blow up your infrastructure in the wars we manufacture and then make a killing on the reconstruction afterwards,
ask Halliburton,
and Blackrock is looking at Ukraine with yearning, thirsting
They already have the contracts for rebuilding, knowing they already have the contracts for rebuilding, knowing they'll make more if the situation worsens
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tfw regular weimerica wasnโt dystopic enough ๐
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https://x.com/goodamericanman/status/1999793551291634099
โLiterally every convenience store run by Indians has a credit card skimmer.โ
โLiterally every convenience store run by Indians has a credit card skimmer.โ
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