Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

SilverElfin

Why just grocery stores? Why not ban selling or purchasing our information to and from data brokers. Like for all uses.

vjvjvjvjghv

The end goal must be to emulate US healthcare where nobody knows what things cost and you find out only months or years after buying.

WalterBright

Another attempt to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand.

fuckinpuppers

That shit is evil

snendroid-ai

https://archive.is/2026.05.01-224445/https://www.nytimes.com...

amazingamazing

Why grocery stores only? It’s also unclear how this will change anything - don’t the grocery stores in richer areas already charge more? I’ve noticed Whole Foods prices are not the same across all stores even in the same state.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951007

geuis

Doesn't this then open a market for "vpn style" apps that make everyone look broke? Get the lowest prices (ie market/baseline) on every interaction from food delivery to airplane tickets?

morkalork

Isn't this level of price discrimination in a round about way just a worse form of communism? If the algo decides you can pay X% of your worth for an item, and X% of my worth for the same item even though the absolute dollar amounts are different, isn't that strange?

MithrilTuxedo

Isn't the Free Market already a form of AI that does exactly that? How can you ban tools for measuring the value of things?

thunderstruck

I'd like to see fair pricing for airlines tickets too.

HeartStrings

Why share locked articles? Why would you do such a thing?

dlcarrier

Grocery stores have smaller margins and more options compared to pretty much any industry, yet politicians seem to think they are the cause of all of our ills.

odie5533

This doesn't look like a cure for cancer like I was promised.