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Which is a roundabout way to say what they actually do, which is to offer "price sensitive" consumers the same prices they used to offer everyone if they are willing to go through stupid hoops worth of "deals" and "coupons" and "engage with our app every day or else your Good Little Consumer (tm) score goes down and we stop giving you discount pricing", and then raise the prices for everyone else.

Price discrimination is about raising prices.






> which is to offer "price sensitive" consumers the same prices they used to offer everyone

You think coupons and deals (e.g. the constant stream of BOGOs, late-night specials, et cetera) are new?




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