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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

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  1. SMAAART · · focus · HN ↗
    True story #1: whenever we go on vacation, wife and I check rates for Uber and Lyft on both of our phones, and consistently we get different rates up to 15% delta.

    True story #2: I am eyeing a nice Seiko watch on Amazon, the price has been oscillating between $296 and $316. Whatever, thinking about waiting for black friday. Then the other day the price jumped to $350; weird.

    So, I switched to Firefox, used the VPN to a different US location, checked the watch and the very same watch was $316. It was surreal.

    Looking forward to hack it in a way that favors consumers.

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