{"id":177852,"date":"2026-01-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/how-does-ai-influence-prices-when-youre-shopping-online-experts-say-its-hard-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:10:24","slug":"how-does-ai-influence-prices-when-youre-shopping-online-experts-say-its-hard-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/how-does-ai-influence-prices-when-youre-shopping-online-experts-say-its-hard-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How does AI influence prices when you&#8217;re shopping online? Experts say it&#8217;s hard to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/costofliving\/ai-pricing-dynamic-shopping-online-9.7039509\">How does AI influence prices when you&#8217;re shopping online? Experts say it&#8217;s hard to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/costofliving\/ai-pricing-dynamic-shopping-online-9.7039509\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/costofliving\/ai-pricing-dynamic-shopping-online-9.7039509<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic pricing utilizes algorithms to adjust prices based on individual online behavior and personal information, making it harder for consumers to find consistent pricing. <\/li>\n<li>AI enhances personalized pricing by collecting vast amounts of unstructured data about users, which is then condensed into economically valuable profiles by companies. <\/li>\n<li>Current algorithmic pricing practices are legal but largely unregulated in Canada; the Competition Bureau of Canada is conducting a consultation to understand concerns and vulnerabilities surrounding this practice.<\/li>\n<li>Personalized pricing is not unique to online transactions; it has long existed in offline sectors such as car dealerships and physical stores, where prices are adjusted based on various factors including customer data and supply and demand.<\/li>\n<li>To mitigate algorithmic pricing, individuals can clear their online cache and cookies, be mindful of data they share, and opt for more private shopping behaviors like in-store purchases with cash to avoid data tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does AI influence prices when you&#8217;re shopping online? Experts say it&#8217;s hard to know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/1.7152203,1768251780503\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%28329%2C0%2C5374%2C3022%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177854,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177852\/revisions\/177854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}