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Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries (www.commondreams.org)
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A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices—but consumer advocates warn it contains loopholes that companies could exploit.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Let's ban other theoretical concepts as well! /s The simple solution is to bring back cost accounting and make it transparent. A system where everything needs to be kept secret to fleece the masses is not a system I'd want to support in my country (but look...here we are).

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