How Target Snooped on Shoppers, Changed Prices Based on Location How Target Snooped on Shoppers, Changed Prices Based on Location... Ever see a price for an item online, then look again and see a different price, and think you were going crazy? Probably not. You were probably encountering some form of dynamic pricing, which retailers have quietly dabbled in for many years. Quietly, because every time consumers find out about it, there’s an uproar and they have to back off — as Target did this week, when Minnesota TV station KARE 11 (KARE-TV) exposed the store for charging very different prices on its app and in its physical stores. A shopper who claimed to have paid $99 for a razor in-store, then spotted the same thing online for $69, had tipped them off. click the link above to continue...
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That's one of my "local" stations. I'm equally distant (very distant) from four TV markets, so I have a lot of local stations and unreliable reception for most of them. I heard someone talking about Dollar General doing the same thing earlier this week.
