Graduate student workers want University of California to create a legal aid fund for immigrants

Graduate student workers negotiating their contracts with the University of California are asking for a legal fund to help them navigate visa issues as the Trump administration ramps up ...

Can you trust you're getting the same grocery prices as someone else?

When you're in a grocery store nowadays, chances are your data is being collected. From a swipe of the loyalty card to the ...

11 Best Grocery Store Scenes In Movie History

For the better or worse, grocery shopping is an integral and unavoidable part of American life. These movies capture what it ...
VegOut Magazine

9 grocery store behaviors that separate people who grew up comfortable from people who grew up checking the bank account first

The grocery store may seem ordinary, but it often reveals how we learned to think about money. Small habits like brand ...

8 Kitchen Essentials You Should Never Buy From Dollar Tree

Dollar Tree is a convenient place to buy affordable things for your kitchen, but it sells some tools and utensils that you ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: L.A. grocery stores are their own case study in economic disparities

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: When I saw the headline “A divergent tale of two Ralphs,” I thought, “Oh goody, the Los Angeles ...

Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder Launches “Aida”: The World’s First AI Agent That Acts as Dietitian, Chef, and Personal Shopper to Automate Human Health

Aspect Health, the metabolic health technology company led by Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Gleb Babiy, today announced the launch of its flagship product, Aida. More than a tracker, Aida is a first of ...
Cheapism

New Study Shows Instacart’s AI Raises Grocery Costs by More Than 20%

Seriously, AI, what is the deal? You’re out here pretending to be a useful tool meant to make life more convenient for everyone, but instead, you’re stealing jobs and making groceries more expensive?
USA Today

Instacart charges shoppers different prices for same items, report says

Instacart is experimenting with pricing, charging some people shopping for groceries at the same time and same store location prices that can vary by as much as 23%, an investigation has found. On ...
New York Post

Instacart caught using shady algorithm to charge different prices to individual customers — in the same stores, bombshell study reveals

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...
Consumer Reports

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds

A Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently ...
The New York Times

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ

The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices. By Ben Casselman On a Thursday in ...