As policymakers debate the role of artificial intelligence in digital markets, the phrase “algorithmic pricing” is often used with implied ominousness. The reality is far simpler: algorithms are just the latest tool businesses use to match prices with customers’ willingness-to-pay.

Trevor Wagener · July 1, 2025

Continuing a trend from last year, large retail companies are once again pushing a proposal to increase regulations on their […]

Matt Schruers · March 24, 2021

Between long-running (but sensationalist) anxieties about the “retail apocalypse” and a recent Frontline profile of Amazon, one might have the […]

Project Disco · February 20, 2020