Dynamic pricing is coming to grocery stores

When we think dynamic pricing, we usually think of airlines, Uber or Amazon quickly changing their prices. But now, dynamic pricing is coming to a supermarket near you.

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More and more, the things we buy are being priced by algorithms. From an airline ticket to an Uber ride, prices change. And your milk might be next. Amanda Aronczyk of NPR’s Planet Money takes us to a store with dynamic pricing.

AMANDA ARONCZYK, BYLINE: Partap Sandhu is the head of pricing at a major Norwegian supermarket called REMA 1000. With a tap, he can change the price of any

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