Article 2M9AX "One price to all" has been the default since 1840, but online retail is sneakily killing it off

"One price to all" has been the default since 1840, but online retail is sneakily killing it off

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Cory Doctorow
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Since the earliest days of ecommerce, analysts have predicted that retailers would use their estimations of their customers' willingness to pay to invisibly, instantaneously reprice their goods, offering different prices to each customer. (more")

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