The Seattle City Council has taken up a trailblazing ordinance aiming to encourage fair pricing for groceries by banning surveillance pricing. It’s another piece of Mayor Katie Wilson’s affordability agenda with strong support from Council’s progressive wing.

The Seattle City Council has taken up a trailblazing ordinance aiming to encourage fair pricing for groceries by banning surveillance pricing. It’s another piece of Mayor Katie Wilson’s affordability agenda with strong support from Council’s progressive wing.

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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    23 天前

    Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores make for a better headline, but I think Mayor Katie’s plan has significantly better economics and more robust consumer protections

    “The policy proposal that we’ve transmitted prohibits price setting based on personal information,” Kerem Levitas, a senior policy advisor at the Mayor’s Office, told a council committee last Friday. “So that includes information like race, gender, employment status, your activity online, your Google searches, and things like AI chatbot conversations. The second thing it does is we’ve been very intentional to make sure that it protects common discounts that we all know and appreciate, like the dollar off cucumbers or your shopper’s cart discounts.”