MORNING DIGEST: Study Finds Instacart Is Charging Different Prices on the Same Item

Is Instacart Ripping off Some of It Customers?

(New York, NY) — The online grocery delivery company, Instacart is being accused charging some customers one price and others another. A study by Consumer Reports alleges Instacart uses AI-powered algorithms to experiment with individual customer pricing, charging different people different amounts for the exact same items at the same store. The researchers found that in some cases products varied as much as 23% from one customer to another. Ins…

MORNING DIGEST: Study finds Instacart is charging different prices on the same item

Good Morning, Cleveland! It's Wednesday, December 10th, and here is what you need to know.Study finds Instacart is charging different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same storesInstacart customers may be surprised to discover they are unwittingly paying more for the same items sold by some of America's major retail chains than their fellow shoppers. A report by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found th…

Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term “tests”