Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says

Walmart CEO John Furner wrote to customers saying electronic shelf labels were intended to save staff time, not change prices based on income, shopping history, purchase urgency or time of day. Conversations with the Sparky AI assistant would not be used for pricing either. Walmart's plan to roll out the labels across US stores by year-end had raised dynamic pricing concerns. New York requires algorithmic pricing disclosure, while New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland ban price changes using customers' personal data.