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🚨 NEW: Big Business rewrote the rules in its favor. We’re rewriting them for shoppers.
Our Shoppers’ Bill of Rights lays out 12 basic protections against hidden fees, pricing games, and the corporate tricks driving up everyday costs. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
New York state would be the largest state to ban surveillance pricing.... if @GovKathyHochul would sign the bill sitting on her desk.
As @SRuhle on @MSNOW says, "Governor Hochul, we're looking at you."
It's not just the usual bad guys ripping you off anymore – even your area museum or zoo can use "rainy days" as an excuse to charge you more.
@owenslindsay1 went on @MSNOWNews to discuss how deceptive pricing practices are popping up everywhere from Walmart to kids' museum.
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What if the person buying the exact same groceries as you was paying less?
An investigation found Instacart used AI-powered pricing experiments to show shoppers different prices for identical items — sometimes up to 23% higher.
@owenslindsay1 of @Groundwork explains.
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More than half (53%) of manufacturers surveyed by the Kansas City Fed reported that customers have become more price-sensitive over the past six months. Manufacturers also shared their experiences with rising costs and pricing decisions:
Walmart doesn’t need to know:
where you live
where you work
where your kids practice soccer
what restaurants you go to
what you post online
how fast your heart is beating
And yet, somehow, there’s a patent for that.
groundworkcollaborative.org/…
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ICYMI: Halloween candy prices are up 15% from last year, 4x the rate of overall inflation.
Our new report w/ @Groundwork finds that major candy makers are keeping prices high while families are increasingly turning to debt to get by.
Read more in @ScrippsNews: scrippsnews.com/life/holiday…
Do you know what's really driving up your candy costs?
@abc15 used our data to make a candy interactive guide – so you can see how much your costs will go AND who's benefiting.
abc15.com/interactive/intera…
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Halloween candy price update: According to @Groundwork, Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish gummies are up 39%, Reese’s peanut butter cups 23%, and Butterfinger, Crunch, Baby Ruth and 100 Grand chocolate nearly 19%.
I’ll discuss on @610wtvnnews at 8AMET. 610wtvn.iheart.com
NEW profile of our @owenslindsay1, discussing her new book, "Gouged," the increasingly sophisticated technologies corporations are using to squeeze consumers, & what policymakers can do to restore fairness to our economy.
Read the full conversation 👇
washingtonian.com/2026/10/21…
Thanks to Trump, this Halloween is frightening for all the wrong reasons.
Spooky season should be about candy and decorations – not scary price hikes.
But candy favorites will cost more than 15% more than last year, in new analysis from us and @TCFdotorg.
Walmart patented a system to decide if you’re enough of a Karen to deserve a gift card when they screw up your order – plus a bunch of other dystopian ways to potentially profile shoppers & personalize prices.
Our new report breaks down the patents you have to see to believe.
groundworkcollaborative.org/…
It's not just ghouls and ghosts out there.
40% of households with young children plan to take on debt in order to cover this year’s Halloween costs.
New analysis from us & @TCFdotorg found Halloween candy prices are up 15% this year compared to last.
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This Halloween, the real jump scare is how high candy prices are under Trump’s economy. Check out this new report 🔽
The scariest thing Americans face this Halloween won’t be a haunted house, but the price tags in the candy aisle.
🚨NEW: We and @TCFdotorg found Halloween candy prices are up 15.3% – a staggering 4x overall inflation.
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As day to day life seems increasingly unaffordable, a new book explores how dynamic and surveillance pricing is making this problem worse.
For the Economic Populist, Gouged author @owenslindsay1 spoke with our own @helaineolen: "Gouged is a book about the reinvention of the ripoff and the ways big tech has supercharged age old impulses to extract as much as possible for consumers at the checkout line."
It can be impossible to know if your personal AI agent is working for you or a retailer, our @owenslindsay1 told @CBSNews.
Walmart's CEO admitted their "Sparky" boosted average order values by 40%, potentially upcharging their customers.
cbsnews.com/news/personal-ai…
"The ways in which pricing have become a highly engineered science have eroded the ability for shoppers to comparison shop."
Our @owenslindsay1 sat down with @helaineolen to discuss her new book, and what the end of a fair prices means for our overall society & economy.
economicpopulist.substack.co…
