#price-gouging — Public Fediverse posts
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The gas price didn't change from yesterday to today. The pump price at this Smith's store in #LasVegas is $5.09 for reg unleaded & $5.99 for diesel. Directly across the street, but not pictured a Chevron w/regular unleaded at $5.29
My son said he paid $4.59 for regular yesterday at Sam's Club; also in Vegas.
On the bright side (if there is one) I got 2 large avocados for 99¢ each
All the strawberries I've bought have been awful
#GasPrices #Inflation #Iran #Oil #USPOL #PriceGouging #Produce
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Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
Paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #economy #economics #grocery #surveillance #pricegouging #maryland
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"Profit Streak".
Yeah, I guess that's one word for #PriceGouging
"Corporate profits have reached a record share of the U.S. economy" ...doesn't happen by accident. #Greedflation
#ThisIsAmericaNow
#RipoffAmericaCorporate America Aims to Preserve Profit Streak During Iran War https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html
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Government halves fuel excise for three months as $2.55 billion handout to fuel companies feeling the pinch
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-30/fuel-excise-halved-three-months-petrol-diesel/106510432There, I fixed the headline for you. It used to say "Government halves fuel excise for three months to ease cost of petrol, diesel."
Pardon my cynicism, but I think servos and companies producing petrol and diesel won't pass along the full savings to customers. They'll price-gouge like they've always price-gouged. We will not see the cost of fuel fall by 26.3 cents a litre, and taxpayers will foot the bill for $2.55 billion. This is a gift from the government to fuel companies that are affected by people cutting their use of petrol and diesel.
If the Trump/Israel invasion of Iran continues more than three months, the government will repeat their misguided $2.25 Billion gesture.
Later, when the government eases-off this fuel excise cut, the fuel companies will use it as a pretext to jump up the price even further.
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I filled up for $2.84 the day this stupid war started, knowing the prices were going up. I was half empty today when I filled up again for $3.59, because I'm not waiting to fill up my WHOLE tank when it climbs up to $4.34 (or more).
#Montana #Billings #gas #gasprices #money #inflation #pricegouging #Iran #IranWar
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Holy WTF, HP? The entire *printer* barely cost that much when I first bought it a few years ago.
Funnily enough, have ordered alternative non-HP ink instead. I can afford a whole new printer if need be (and to get away from HP with their evil "subscription" imposition mentality, would quite like the excuse to jump, tbh).
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Amazon Busted for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price
#HackerNews #Amazon #Inflated #Prices #PriceGouging #Economy #NewsTech #ConsumerRights
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Dawg I went to buy *one* orange and it cost me $3.50... more Metros need to get robbed fr
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Ummmm... no. I will not be spending a min. $53 to travel 10 min to work. Looks like another wfh day.
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"According to Tom, the key issue is not whether SATA SSDs are technologically outdated, but how much supply they still represent. He points out that roughly 20% of Amazon’s top SSD bestsellers are still SATA-based, with Samsung drives making up a notable portion of that list. Pulling that volume out of the market, even gradually, reduces overall SSD availability, which in turn puts upward pressure on pricing for both SATA and NVMe drives."
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Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instacart-grocery-prices
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #pricegouging #instacart #grocery #business #economy #finance
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Local fans outraged at 2026 World Cup’s ‘inconceivable’ and ‘extortionate’ ticket prices ⚽ 🏟️ 💰
“This is a monumental betrayal of the tradition of the World Cup, ignoring the contribution of supporters to the spectacle it is.”
"What FIFA is doing now, in my opinion, is price gouging, which is illegal in the US."
#Sports #WorldCup #Dallas #Football #Futbol #FIFA #Tickets #DynamicPricing #TicketPrices #PriceGouging #Extortion
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A Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart — which promotes itself as the nation’s largest third-party grocery delivery service, and delivers from retailers like Costco, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Safeway, and Target charges some people significantly more for the exact same grocery item because ... they can.
CR volunteers who repeatedly shopped the same products at the exact same time online saw prices on some products differ by as much as 23 percent. Based on the average variations they saw, for a household of four that could translate into a difference of about $1,200 a year.
Some products were offered at as many as five different prices, with variations ranging from as little as 7 cents to as much as $2.56 per item.
Call on the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to investigate Instacart’s pricing tactics, and hold them accountable for any unfair practices.
#ConsumerProtection #ConsumerReports #InstaCart #PriceGouging
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@markjustmark @ThorsdaysChild @fesshole Anyway such negative behaviours that cause your kitchen refurbishment quote to come out higher could also be as a result of mental health issues.
1 in 4 people report mental health issues each year.
But still these people are also fair game when it comes to discriminatory pricing. Right?
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Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-day-of-free-solar-power-even-if-they-dont-have-solar-panelsGood to see the ALP making a step in the right direction to tackle Australia's cost of living crisis.
It's only fair that the benefits of free electricity from residential rooftop solar are shared with all consumers.Next:
- Investigate price-gouging for "network fees" and "poles & wires" charges by electricity wholesalers.
- Make electricity companies pay households a fair price for putting electricity they generated with their own rooftop solar into the grid. Currently, electricity companies take it for free or pay households a miserly feed-in rate. Some other countries have regulations to make power companies pay households equal rates for "give and take".#AusPol #SolarPower #Solar #RooftopSolar #Renewables #PriceGouging #CostOfLiving
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Kaiser Strike!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pi4TWzrb0Go
Kaiser workers are sick of executives’ greed. They just launched the biggest strike of the year.
#USA #Kaiser #HealthInsurance #PriceGouging #LowPay #Strike #Suffering #Shareholders #Billionaires #Union
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"As the Marxist pamphleteer Adam Smith wrote in his Leninist textbook The Wealth of Nations, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
For a commie, that Adam Smith sure had a fine grasp of the business mindset. Price-fixing conspiracies are as old as the lumber barons who gouged Noah, and they're illegal as hell."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/09/pricewars/
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Cineplex drip pricing case headed for appeal could serve as warning
https://ground.news/article/cineplex-drip-pricing-case-headed-for-appeal-could-serve-as-warning?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share -
Apparently, Chess.com is pioneering the art of charging you precisely what you don’t want to pay 💸 based on where you live 🌍. In a shocking revelation, businesses aim to make money... who knew? 🤯 This "case study" could have been summed up in two words: Price Gouging. 🎯
https://mobeigi.com/blog/economics/chesscom-regional-pricing/ #Chesscom #Pricing #PriceGouging #BusinessEthics #ConsumerAwareness #ChessNews #HackerNews #ngated -
welp… so the reason #Disney back-peddaled is because they didn’t think fucking with #JimmyKimmel would unleash a #BoycottDisney. they never thought how any backlash would mess-up the #streaming #priceGouging they’ve relied on, to cook-up profit margins of the millions upon millions users they’ve never had:
❝ Disney may announce a Disney Plus price increase tomorrow https://www.theverge.com/news/783236/disney-may-announce-a-disney-plus-price-increase-tomorrow
USA media companies believed their own hype of billions of trapped paying users, esp Disney.
FAFO.
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Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says
#HackerNews #Ticketmaster #Scalping #FTC #Emails #PriceGouging #ConsumerRights #TechNews
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Trump: the gift that keeps on giving!
"The price of the weight loss jab Mounjaro will rise by up to 170% in the UK, its US manufacturer has said, as Donald Trump ramps up pressure on drugmakers to increase their prices for Europeans so that they can make them more affordable for Americans.
Eli Lilly has said it will increase the price of the drug from September, with a month’s supply of the highest dose rising from £122 to £303.
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#Minneapolis Might Have Just Found Their Own #Socialist Version Of #ZohranMamdani
Nicole Silverio
July 14, 2025"Democrat Minneapolis mayoral candidate #OmarFateh laid out his vision on Sunday to #FreezeRent, rapidly raise the minimum wage and refuse to cooperate with federal #immigration enforcement.
"Fateh, who is currently a Minnesota state senator, posted a video to his X account calling to 'protect' Minneapolis from a 'hostile White House,' increase the minimum wage by $20 by 2028 and prohibit the #MinneapolisPoliceDepartment (MPD) from 'interacting' with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE). The mayoral candidate, who announced his candidacy in December, has a platform that strongly resembles Democrat New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s.
" 'Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump means not letting MPD interact with ICE, whether it’s for an immigration raid or not. Our residents deserve a mayor who will stand up to Donald Trump and say, ‘no, not in our community,'” Fateh said.
"Like Fateh, Mamdani threatened to potentially use his power as mayor to interfere with ICE’s operations that aim to detain and deport illegal immigrants who are convicted or charged with heinous criminal acts. President #DonaldTrump warned that Mamdani could be placed under arrest if he interferes with federal immigration enforcement during a July 1 roundtable in Florida.
"Border czar #TomHoman has also warned that any government official who obstructs federal agents’ duties could be subject to prosecution.
"Fateh claimed in his latest campaign video that 47% of calls to MPD can be
'diverted to [a] non-police response' because officers are not social workers and cannot always provide the appropriate response. He called on passing '#RentStabilization' to end so-called '#PriceGouging' and he has further introduced a plan to 'prevent rental evictions' by implementing a Just Cause eviction policy, according to his website."Fateh represents Minnesota’s 62nd senate district, which includes south Minneapolis in Hennepin County. He is a child of #SomalianImmigrants and the first Muslim to serve in the state senate, according to the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library."
Read more:
https://www.aol.com/news/minneapolis-might-just-found-own-153449340.html#USPol #MinnesotaPol #DemocraticSocialists #ResistICE #TrumpSucks