For customers who don't have the freedom to choose where they shop, technological advancements—particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and intrusive personal data collection—are making price ...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew the agency’s lawsuit against Pepsi Cola for allegedly violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA). The withdrawal was supported by all three members of the ...

March is a time when tax season, and tax deadlines, are understandably on many people’s minds. But the month of March is also when some people celebrate equity and women’s achievements. For example, ...

The Federal Trade Commission is suing PepsiCo for allegedly giving an unnamed big box retailer more favorable prices than its competition. The unnamed retailer is Walmart, sources familiar with the ...

Senior and student discounts don’t tend to be controversial, but mortgage concessions that favor males over females, “pink taxes” on women’s personal care items and dating apps that charge older users ...

The Wendy’s debacle is a warning shot for brands: If you want to play with prices, make sure to communicate why and whom it could help. By Lydia DePillis It’s been a strange and maddening couple of ...

Amongst all of the brouhaha circulating following the FCC’s net neutrality announcement, some of the most puzzling comments concern the purported ‘evils of price discrimination’ that will inevitably ...

A window display at an A&P store in Manhattan in the 1930s. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Perspective by Marc Levinson In 1909, the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company offered a ...

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It’s been a strange and maddening couple of years for consumers, with prices of essential goods soaring and then sinking, turning household budgets upside down. Perhaps that’s why, in late February, ...