Surveillance Pricing

I like to think I'm pretty aware of corporate surveillance practices, but this article really opened my eyes to some of the most devious practices.

The price fixing aspect was especially worrying. It's been well publicized that rents only seem to go up and there are housing crises all over the place, but I assumed it was more due to the usual supply and demand, corporations buying property and raising rents, etc. But I had no idea it was explicit price collusion through 3rd party intermediates, who only exist to enable a token attempt to prevent anti-trust action against them.

> Plexure boasts that it can predict what day a given customer is getting paid on and use that information to raise prices on all the goods the customer shops for on that day, on the assumption that you're willing to pay more when you've got a healthy bank balance.

wow that is so gross

As long as everyone, including the people responsible for these disgusting tactics, gets equally surveilled, there shouldn't be a problem! What do you mean that's not how it works?