Democrats are putting the squeeze on President Donald Trump’s big “ last year by the nonprofits Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union and the progressive policy group Groundwork Collaborative found that prices for Instacart shoppers varied by as much as 23% for the same product at the same exact time in different stores.
“Instacart’s algorithmic pricing experiments were found to be occurring through the platform at several of the nation’s biggest grocery retailers, including Albertsons, Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Target,” Consumer Reports wrote in its investigation.
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The Democratic legislation is a priority for the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents hundreds of thousands of grocery store employees across the country.
The union has been pushing for similar bans in several states, worried advancements in artificial intelligence could push up prices for consumers and kill union jobs in supermarkets.
“Americans are hurting under the affordability crisis, and UFCW members see the pain in their faces every time they enter the grocery stores,” the union’s president, Milton Jones, said in a statement. “Our members also feel it themselves when they shop for their families.”
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