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Dec 16, 2025 47 min

Your Online Grocer "Randomly" Raises Prices

from This Time Is Different Hosted by Malcolm Ethridge and Ricky Mulvey

Instacart is testing different prices for the same basket of goods, sold from the same grocery store and at the same time. Algorithmic pricing is in your grocery cart. Ricky Mulvey and Malcolm Ethridge discuss: - Disney allowing its characters on OpenAI’s Sora platform. - Why Malcolm is losing faith in Oracle’s business. - Instacart playing with algorithmic pricing on grocery items - The potential of a one-person unicorn. Hosts: Ricky Mulvey, Malcolm Ethridge Engineer: Tim Sparks

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