ICYMI: In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries at the same time on its platform.

In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries, at the same time on its platform.

Instacart said Monday that it’s ending a program where some customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store when using the delivery company’s service. https://to.pbs.org/3YH5cws

GLOBAL TV FOR THE WIN, dropbox link in thread

Just read the report that triggered this, fantastic and much needed work on pricing transparency groundworkcollaborative.org/work/instaca...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

Even Hegseth is still Secretary of Defense! Congress hasn’t renamed DOD.

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Instacart settles with FTC over deceptive practices but still faces questions about pricing

1/Easy to laugh off renaming of Kennedy Center as one man's insatiable need for attention. But that underestimates its significance. In an emerging neo-royalist order, power is based on status hierarchies and pecking orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Read his book. Get involved in your community; donate, volunteer, carry around money and food/hygiene products to help the unhoused.

You shouldn’t be charged higher costs because your grocery app is profiling you — but that’s exactly what Instacart is doing. Their use of surveillance pricing to rip you off is alarming, and with @deluzio.house.gov, Rep. Pat Ryan, & @repangiecraig.bsky.social, I’m demanding an investigation.

"The agency has sent the company a civil investigative demand," sources told Reuters. Instacart's stock fell 8% after news of the investigation broke.

BREAKING: The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Instacart, according to Reuters. The probe follows our investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social revealed the company is using AI algorithms to increase grocery prices.

Costs are already going up for families across America. Companies like Instacart shouldn’t be allowed to take advantage of uncertainty and squeeze families even more. We’re demanding answers.

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

Are companies using AI to rip you off? McDonald's says it monitors precise geolocation and browsing—and enable dynamic pricing; a 437-shopper Instacart test across four cities found nearly 75% of items varied up to 23%, costing some $1,200 yearly.

I think you want this stable link to the post, not whatever hoo-ha Instagram reels is pumping out: www.instagram.com/p/DSWA7DfkiVN/

As Americans are feeling the pinch of higher grocery costs, a new report finds that online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers. https://to.wttw.com/44AkB5f

On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant. In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Network state on the front page. We did it, Balajo.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

You're walking home from the gym when you're stopped by FBI officers in an unmarked car. They handcuff you, even though you tell them you're a US citizen. Then, they scan your face. 23-year-old Jesus Gutiérrez recounts his experience to @revealnews.org and 404 Media:

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Now the family has to monitor for potential long-term damage to their daughter’s lungs and eyes. This is just one of the many stories in this article on the horrors US citizens are facing with ICE.

"Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed. ... the father of two had been admitted after being shot twice."

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Instacart is using algorithmic pricing to charge you 20% more for your Wheat Thins.

Instacart and algorithmic pricing. (> More Perfect Union) youtube.com/shorts/WpX5k...

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

Price manipulation isn’t innovation. It’s exploitation and workers are the ones paying for it.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

so @consumerreports.org, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social actually found that Instacart was doing this: www.consumerreports.org/money/questi... If anyone want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...

While families everywhere are struggling to put food on the table – Big Tech is exploiting your data to rake in record profits. I'm demanding answers from Instacart.

You must read the new report from @katiejwells.bsky.social, groundwork, and consumer reports auditing instacart price manipulation. That platforms like this (or Amazon, or...) can play both sides of the market is probably a significant ingredient to post-Covid "sellers inflation."

A new study from @groundwork.bsky.social, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @consumerreports.org found: - 74% of items had multiple prices - Up to 5 different prices for the exact same product - Basket totals for the same 20 items varied by 7% A 7% swing could cost families $1,200 more a year

Lawmakers mull action on ‘dynamic’ AI-powered pricing in wake of ‘shocking’ Instacart report

NEW: Our experts, along with @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social looked into how Instacart was deciding prices on grocery items across the country. What we found will shock you.

In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:

Sign our petition to the FTC to investigate Instacart’s pricing algorithm: action.consumerreports.org/social-20251... You'll also get updates to join similar projects like this in the future.

Today, Cory Doctorow is talking about surveillance pricing and Instacart. Including Costco: pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/n...

The most *chef's kiss* part of this story is when Instacart says it's the stores that set the prices and then the stores point the finger right back at Instacart and say they don't set the prices on the platform. truthout.org/articles/ins...