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The Price Tag May Know More About You Than You Know About the Price

Pricing technology can use location, shopping history and behavior to shape what consumers see. The harder question is whether consumers can tell when it happens.

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Aug 12, 2026
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Pricing technology can use location, shopping history and behavior to shape what consumers see. The harder question is whether consumers can tell when it happens.

By The Redemption Project Newsroom
Consumer Protection / Technology Desk

For most of retail history, the seller knew the price and the customer decided whether to pay it.

The emerging pricing syst…

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