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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/s…
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/s…
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One major consequence of the K-shaped economy? The $48 cocktail.
More and more companies are abandoning everyday Americans to chase wealthy customers who can afford to pay exorbitant prices.
Meanwhile, the rest of us get priced out.
More and more companies are abandoning everyday Americans to chase wealthy customers who can afford to pay exorbitant prices.
Meanwhile, the rest of us get priced out.
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Your AI agent may not be working for you – in fact, it might be ripping you off.
Our @owenslindsay1 joined @TheStalwart & @tracyalloway on the Odd Lots podcast to warn about trusting AI agents to do your shopping.
A new study tested over 325,000 agents with shocking results.
Our @owenslindsay1 joined @TheStalwart & @tracyalloway on the Odd Lots podcast to warn about trusting AI agents to do your shopping.
A new study tested over 325,000 agents with shocking results.
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
"Gouged" named a bestseller in Oklahoma by @TulsaPeople!
Thanks to everyone who's reading! And a big thanks to @aspenideas for having me in Tulsa earlier this month to talk about the book.
Get your copy: bit.ly/GougedPRH
Thanks to everyone who's reading! And a big thanks to @aspenideas for having me in Tulsa earlier this month to talk about the book.
Get your copy: bit.ly/GougedPRH
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DoorDash + Instacart know an alarming amount about how we shop. A merger would put that data – and the technology to exploit it – under one roof.
"It would be obviously illegal and consolidate an alarming amount of surveillance and pricing technology,” @owenslindsay1 told @Reuters.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
"It would be obviously illegal and consolidate an alarming amount of surveillance and pricing technology,” @owenslindsay1 told @Reuters.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
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Our @owenslindsay sat down with @1a to discuss the myriad of ways companies – big and small – are manipulating the the amount consumers pay for their products.
the1a.org/segments/how-y…
the1a.org/segments/how-y…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
.@Groundwork is warning that @DoorDash's $17 billion acquisition of @Instacart could give it unprecedented power to hike prices.
Instacart has already tested charging shoppers up to 23% more for identical groceries.
Together, they'd control 77% of U.S. delivery-platform spending.
Instacart has already tested charging shoppers up to 23% more for identical groceries.
Together, they'd control 77% of U.S. delivery-platform spending.
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
A @Groundwork Collaborative report details how soaring funeral costs, probate fees, and inadequate life insurance can push American families into debt after a death. commondreams.org/news/average-c…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
🚨 NEW from @Groundwork: Private equity is rolling up funeral homes, and families are paying the price on the worst days of their lives.
@zoezoe_butler lays out how the business of dying is burying us:
@zoezoe_butler lays out how the business of dying is burying us:
NEW: The average funeral now costs more than $7,700.
One survey found that the share of Americans taking on funeral debt rose from 14% in 2024 to 37% in 2025.
I wrote about what's driving these costs and how to protect families for @Groundwork groundworkcollaborative.org/work/death-deb…
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Halloween candy prices are scary high thanks to Trump's economic policies and corporate profiteering (we're looking at you Hershey's 👀).
“Ultimately, it’s families and it’s kids who suffer because Halloween is really all about them, or should be,” @EmDiVito told @HuffPost.
huffpost.com/entry/hallowee…
“Ultimately, it’s families and it’s kids who suffer because Halloween is really all about them, or should be,” @EmDiVito told @HuffPost.
huffpost.com/entry/hallowee…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
NEW: The average funeral now costs more than $7,700.
One survey found that the share of Americans taking on funeral debt rose from 14% in 2024 to 37% in 2025.
I wrote about what's driving these costs and how to protect families for @Groundwork groundworkcollaborative.org/work/death-deb…
One survey found that the share of Americans taking on funeral debt rose from 14% in 2024 to 37% in 2025.
I wrote about what's driving these costs and how to protect families for @Groundwork groundworkcollaborative.org/work/death-deb…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
Tech is fueling price gouging.
Prices are on the rise, and according to the author of "Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet", @owenslindsay1, CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative, that's not just due to inflation and other market pressures.
Lindsay sat down with Beter Life Lab's Haley Swenson to discuss how new technologies are allowing price gouging on an unprecedented scale. So how do we fight to keep essential services and goods affordable? Owens has a few ideas.
Read the full article at the Better Life Lab via this link: newamerica.org/insights/tech-….
And watch part of the interview on YouTube:
youtu.be/YHkiFupaPAQ?si… via @YouTube
Prices are on the rise, and according to the author of "Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet", @owenslindsay1, CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative, that's not just due to inflation and other market pressures.
Lindsay sat down with Beter Life Lab's Haley Swenson to discuss how new technologies are allowing price gouging on an unprecedented scale. So how do we fight to keep essential services and goods affordable? Owens has a few ideas.
Read the full article at the Better Life Lab via this link: newamerica.org/insights/tech-….
And watch part of the interview on YouTube:
youtu.be/YHkiFupaPAQ?si… via @YouTube
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Americans should be able to book a flight, order a ride, or walk into their grocery store and know that the price they see is the same price their neighbor sees.
It's past time to give American consumers a peek into these companies' pricing black boxes.
newsweek.com/full-list-comp…
It's past time to give American consumers a peek into these companies' pricing black boxes.
newsweek.com/full-list-comp…
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Corporations are getting called out for using technology to set personalized prices & squeeze more money out of consumers.
Some insist they're pricing products, not people.
If that's true, they should have no problem opening their pricing black boxes to the FTC.
gizmodo.com/feds-demand-in…
Some insist they're pricing products, not people.
If that's true, they should have no problem opening their pricing black boxes to the FTC.
gizmodo.com/feds-demand-in…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
Rohit Chopra knows the makings of an economic crisis when he sees one. And Chopra — a top consumer protection watchdog under Biden who was ousted by Trump — thinks the current administration is ill-prepared to handle the fallout of a possible AI bubble.
politico.com/news/2026/10/2…
politico.com/news/2026/10/2…
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
oh good, so customers will get to choose between Instacart-DoorDash’s surveillance pricing or Walmart’s surveillance pricing. what robust competition!
Calling DoorDash-Instacart a grocery monopoly only works if you leave out Walmart, the biggest online grocer in America (~37%), now offering 30-minute delivery in 33 markets. Local grocers need scale to compete with that, and this deal could help.
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NEW: The FTC is ordering 9 companies, including DoorDash, Instacart & Walmart, to disclose how they use personal data to set prices.
We've repeatedly exposed gaps between what companies tell consumers & what they reveal to investors & in patent filings.
Time to open the pricing black boxes.
We've repeatedly exposed gaps between what companies tell consumers & what they reveal to investors & in patent filings.
Time to open the pricing black boxes.
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Dollar General has become the grocery store that families in rural and lower-income areas of the country rely on.
"So the fact that they are perpetrating this fraud on Americans who don’t have many other options is sickening,” says @owenslindsay1.
"So the fact that they are perpetrating this fraud on Americans who don’t have many other options is sickening,” says @owenslindsay1.
The Federal Trade Commission has sued the bargain chain Dollar General over what it described as "deceptive pricing practices." abcnews.link/jqNsN3q
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Groundwork Collaborative retweeted
A grocery company that experiments on shoppers to see how much it can overcharge them is merging with a delivery company that tracks their every click and scroll to do the same.
Two of America's biggest ripoff machines should not become one.
The FTC must block this merger.
Two of America's biggest ripoff machines should not become one.
The FTC must block this merger.
BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers. apnews.com/article/doorda…
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