Congratulations, you’ve been personally selected to pay 23% more for the exact same bananas because Instacart’s AI decided you look like a sucker today. New investigation reveals they’ve been running secret price roulette: same store, same time, same box of Cheerios – but your cart costs $123 while the guy next door pays $114. It’s not inflation, it’s algorithmic robbery with a friendly “add to cart” button. Even the stores had no idea they were being used as pawns in Silicon Valley’s latest grift.
Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item