Over the past couple of years, food and grocery delivery services from Uber Eats and DoorDash to Amazon Fresh and GrubHub have exploded in popularity. The pandemic played a big role in growth. In 2019, just 67 million Americans bought groceries online; by 2024, that number rocketed to 138.3 million. This year, the number is expected to be around 148.4 million, meaning more than half of Americans older than 18 will purchase groceries online, according to Capital One Shopping. Prior to the pandemic, ship ...

The practice, known as surveillance pricing, appears to go back to Instacart's 2022 acquisition of Eversight, an AI pricing company. In the company's 2023 shareholder letter, Instacart described one of its tools, "smart rounding," as "a machine learning-driven tool that helps retailers improve price perception and drive incremental sales."CR and Groundwork Collaborative recruited 437 volunteers across four cities to shop on Instacart for identical items at the same stores simultaneously. Three-quarters of t ...

案件核心与和解协议 - RealPage与内华达州就其租金设定软件达成和解 该软件被指控使用客户提供的非公开数据计算价格建议 从而人为推高租金[6] - 内华达州总检察长指控RealPage收集的非公开信息导致租金建议削弱竞争并损害租户利益[6] - RealPage否认有任何不当行为 选择和解是为了避免潜在诉讼的成本和干扰[6] - 根据和解协议 RealPage不承认任何不当行为 并获内华达州总检察长办公室免除与其软件相关的所有索赔[5] 和解具体条款 - RealPage在软件运行时使用其他非关联物业的非公开数据为内华达州物业计算租金建议时 数据必须至少过期三个月、经过匿名化处理且至少聚合10处物业[7] - RealPage向内华达州客户发布关于租金、入住率或空置率的非公开数据时 数据必须至少聚合10处物业且经过匿名化[7] - 在不限制关联物业使用自身数据的前提下 RealPage收入管理软件使用经内华达州物业非公开数据训练的机器学习模型时 该数据必须至少过期三个月[7] - RealPage将维持一项反垄断合规计划 并对收入管理人员进行培训[5] - RealPage将向内华达州支付20万美元 用于该州低收入居民的租金减免[5] 行业背景与公司回应 - 美国司法部于去年八月起诉RealPage 并于今年一月增加了包括Greystar在内的六家大型公寓业主 指控其参与损害租户的算法定价计划[3] - 内华达州的诉讼是此后州、地方政府及租户提起的一系列类似投诉之一[3] - RealPage将租金上涨归因于COVID-19大流行[4] - 作为对立法活动的回应 RealPage此前已修改其收入管理软件 从所有客户物业的租金建议计算中移除非关联物业的非公开数据[4]