A Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I buy groceries at an employee owned chain that pays its people well, keeps unnecessary costs down, has a massive selection, and is consistently cheaper than almost anywhere else. It’s been interesting to see how some items have had minimal inflation while others have gone way up. And then to see those same items all massively overpriced everywhere else.

    Anything I can buy there, I buy there. I spend a lot of money there. They have my undying loyalty, and all it took was for them to not be evil.

    The people behind this shit? I wouldn’t piss on em if they were on fire. If they were being fed feet first into a wood chipper one by one, I’d only complain about the noise.