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Lindsay Owens discusses Gouged, corporate pricing, affordability, and consumer protection in the media below:

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Press

Sep 30, 2026

Inside Look at How Retailers Use Your Data for ‘Price Experiments’

Sep 29, 2026

The price tag might be an endangered species

Sep 17, 2026

Algorithmic Price Manipulation & Targeted Gouging | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Oct 5, 2026

Lindsay Owens Puts Gougers on the Spot In Her New Book

Aug 4, 2026

US Senate Committee on The Judiciary: Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing

Aug 4, 2026

Innovative Research: “Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing”

Sep 28, 2026

As the US midterms approach, Trump’s boasts on the economy fall flat with voters

Aug 31, 2026

AI is watching your spending and setting your prices accordingly. Lawmakers want to stop it

Aug 21, 2026

Loyalty Marketing is Making Headlines for the Wrong Reason – and What You Should Do About It

Aug 5, 2026

Walmart has a new patent for a shopping cart that tracks the speed of your cart, your heart rate AND your body temperature.
And they could use that data to set a personalized prices and gouge customers.

Sep 8, 2026

Surveillance Pricing Makes Its Way Into The Grocery Store

Sep 10, 2026

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley suggests a future lane for the GOP that is drastically different from other Republican presidential contenders.

Op-Eds

Sep 28, 2026

NYC Makes it Easier to Cancel Old Fees

Sep 24, 2026

Yes, you’re being ripped off. Here’s how it happened. The price tag, once a symbol of fairness and transparency, has disappeared.

Sep 24, 2026

Yes, you’re being ripped off. Here’s how it happened. The price tag, once a symbol of fairness and transparency, has disappeared.

Sep 28, 2026

NYC Makes it Easier to Cancel Old Fees

Sep 28, 2026

NYC Makes it Easier to Cancel Old Fees

Sep 24, 2026

Yes, you’re being ripped off. Here’s how it happened. The price tag, once a symbol of fairness and transparency, has disappeared.

Sep 21, 2026

I helped expose the Instacart pricing scandal: These are the sneaky tactics used by brands like Uber and Starbucks, major airlines and even your landlord... and how you can protect your wallet

Jun 27, 2026

An Old Fix for a New Kind of Salesman

March 31, 2025

New York Times Op-Ed: I Listened in on Big Business. It’s Profiting from Inflation, and You’re Paying for it.

June 3, 2024

The Age of Recoupment: How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers

Podcasts

Sep 22, 2026

Gouged: How Big Tech Reinvented the Rip-Off (with Lindsay Owens)

Dec 31, 2025

Lindsay Owens discusses Instacart’s use of dynamic pricing on Fast Politics with Molly Jong Fast

Socials

Walmart just updated its Customer Privacy Notice, spelling out exactly what it can collect about you when you shop in stores or online.

Right now, @instacart is quietly running experiments on millions of us while we shop for groceries online.

Jan 30, 2026

Politico:
5 questions for Lindsay Owens

Dec 11, 2025

Instacart’s AI pricing can vary by user and bump up your grocery costs, study finds

Good news for chocolate lovers. After consumers revolted, Hershey’s had to walk back their decision to make their iconic candy with cheaper, artificial ingredients.

Walmart shoppers: some changes are coming to how Walmart sets their prices. And it’s not great.

$80,000. That’s not the price of Land Rover or a downpayment on a house. That’s the price for some World Cup tickets.

Walmart’s CEO was caught bragging about how their new AI shopping assistant “Sparky” quietly tracks customers in the Walmart app, and gets them to spend 35% more.

JetBlue accidentally admitted what we already knew: they’re using surveillance to charge consumers the absolute most they can to buy a ticket.

The latest and greatest corporate money grab scheme squeezing consumers: corporations using AI to gouge us in secret.

Buying the things we need in this economy is hard enough. What’s worse, corporations are doing everything they can to squeeze every last dollar out of you.

When companies use personalized pricing, they’re deciding who gets a fair price, and who gets gouged.

Aug 7, 2026

Uber only became profitable once it started using its own algorithm against its own drivers to see what the lowest wage they’d accept was.

Aug 19, 2026

Earlier this morning @lindsayowensphd joined Mornings with Zerlina to discuss the latest polling from Groundwork Action showing how voters are demanding bold economic reform.

Dec 31, 2025

Lindsay Owens discusses Instacart’s use of dynamic pricing on Fast Politics with Molly Jong Fast

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