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How AI Enables Higher Food Prices and Corporate Profits
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Food & Water Watch
Corporations are using digital price tags, data collection, and artificial intelligence to drive up food prices and extract more profit from us.
Using artificial intelligence (AI), Instacart charged shoppers different prices for the same items to see how much different people were willing to pay.
At a time of rising food prices and cruel Trump policies that take food out of the mouths of children and families, this kind of experimentation is a slap in the face.
AI and Digital Price Tags Promise Faster “Dynamic” PricingWhile corporations work toward personalized prices, digital price tags are allowing them to change prices on the shelves at the drop of a hat.
AI Prices, Profits, and Corporate PowerWhile companies have insisted that they’re using these technologies to offer “more relevant” coupons to customers, we know the truth.