Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

No one waits for Cyber Monday to launch the internet's biggest holiday shopping surge anymore. We start shopping on Black Friday and don’t stop until our Santa’s bags of holiday goodies are ...

The future of price fixing: Online shopping algorithms like Amazon's can learn to work with other sites to artificially inflate prices. Online shopping product prices are increasingly set by AI ...

Smart software controls the prices and products you see when you shop online – and sometimes it can go ... The bad things that happen when algorithms run online shops. 20 August 2015. Share Save.

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The AI behind retail websites has learnt the best strategy is to copy each other’s prices – and that can see them ‘collude’ to keep them high.