What do variable online airline ticket prices and children's menu prices have in common? They both provide examples of price discrimination. The first allows an online provider to adjust pricing ...

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You want to go to Tokyo, so you hit up Google Flights and do some research. Tickets are around $800, but you close your browser window and decide to look again later ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Busy with three young kids, Amy Deavilla plans to do all her holiday shopping online. What the Malden mother doesn't know is that the price she sees isn't always what everyone else sees ...

If you went to your local coffee shop and learned you’d be charged four dollars, when the guy in front of you was only charged three, because the shop had been studying your buying behavior, you’d ...

Airlines have always used a multitude of proxies to determine customers’ willingness to pay: how far in advance people are booking, whether they’re going one-way or return, whether they’re staying a ...

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On January 17, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a lawsuit against major food and beverage company Pepsi on ...