Six months after Wendy’s started a fierce debate about the fairness of dynamic pricing in restaurants, with consumers comparing price fluctuations throughout the day to Uber surge pricing policies, ...
If you feel like you’re being nickel-and-dimed everywhere you shop – you probably are. Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dynamic pricing, once limited to airlines and hotels, has now spread across industries like retail, ride-sharing, entertainment, ...
You've probably never thought about it, but the humble price tag has been fighting for us for over a century. Now that price tag is facing extinction with dynamic pricing swooping in to overtake it.
As an industry, we have been discussing dynamic pricing for more than a decade. Numerous iterations pop into the public forums occasionally: variable, seasonal, and, lately, surge pricing. Last week, ...
It was curious that critics overlooked comparisons to hotels, airlines and concert promoters who have been using this tactic for years. A restaurant selling fresh fish in Boston or Seattle can set its ...
A study with 500-plus consumers showed 62 percent of restaurants worry about how consumers will react—and with good reason. Let’s be clear: While dynamic pricing is a feasible option for many ...
An amazing thing about algorithms is they operate in the shadows. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are both ubiquitous and unnoticeable. For example, most hotel and airline prices are ...
Pricing isn’t just about picking a number, it’s a strategic decision that can make or break your business. Whether you’re a ...