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Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricing—a First in Canada (thewalrus.ca)

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[-] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 17 points 18 hours ago

Hey Manitoba, you dropped this

Me kneeling offering my appreciation to Manitoba the GOAT

[-] rndmdsplyname@lemmy.ca 29 points 21 hours ago

Holy fuck I haven’t so delighted about current events in YEARS!!!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -3 points 3 hours ago

yay a single law

[-] rndmdsplyname@lemmy.ca 2 points 33 minutes ago

loll i’m with you but in this anti-consumer hellhole this feels like a huge win

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 23 points 20 hours ago

Overall I've been pretty happy with Mr. Kinew and the NDP. They've been a lot better than the conservatives ever have been for our province.

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 15 points 20 hours ago

clearly the greatest province in Canada

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

This is a very good idea. Hope it catches on.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

The algorithm for collusion on prices is trivial.

Set price = competitors max price.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 8 hours ago

They're talking about the kind of algorithmic pricing that uses information about shopping patterns to try to charge some people more than others, not the kind of simple price-fixing racket that's likely been going on since Nanni was complaining about the quality of Ea-nāṣir's copper