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Consumer Concerns Mount Over US Retailers' Adoption of AI-Assisted Pricing Tools

Consumer Concerns Mount Over US Retailers' Adoption of AI-Assisted Pricing Tools

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October 19th, 2026

Consumer Concerns Mount Over US Retailers' Adoption of AI-Assisted Pricing Tools

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American consumers do not merely harbour grievances about high prices.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ํ’ˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

They feel both outrage and bewilderment at the increasingly sophisticated, cutting-edge technology that restaurant chains and major retailers deploy to set their prices.

์™ธ์‹ ์ฒด์ธ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋™์›ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์™€ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

As paper price tags in grocery aisles are rapidly being supplanted by digital ones, artificial intelligence (AI) tools help companies determine how much to charge by predicting how customers will respond.

์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๋งค์žฅ ํ†ต๋กœ์—์„œ ์ข…์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๋กœ ๊ธ‰์†ํžˆ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI) ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์กฐ๋ ฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

Terms such as "dynamic pricing" and "surveillance pricing" are stirring unease on social media, with users questioning whether different people might be charged different prices for the very same product.

'๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ(dynamic pricing)'๊ณผ '๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •(surveillance pricing)' ๊ฐ™์€ ์šฉ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹Œ์ง€ ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Americans have grown accustomed to fluctuating prices when booking airline tickets, hotel rooms, and ride-hailing services, yet the prospect that their everyday purchases could be dictated by algorithms they do not understand and by personal data they may not even realize they are sharing has left them on edge.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ํ•ญ๊ณต๊ถŒ, ํ˜ธํ…” ๊ฐ์‹ค, ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰ ํ˜ธ์ถœ์„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์กฐ์ฐจ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ผ์ƒ ์†Œ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ขŒ์šฐ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „๋ง์—๋Š” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ณค๋‘์„ฐ๋‹ค.

Katie Thomas, who heads the internal consumer behavior think tank at the management consulting firm Kearney, remarked, "Considerable tension is building over who will hold real power in this era of algorithms, bots, and AIโ€”corporations or consumers."

๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ ์ปค๋‹ˆ(Kearney)์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ํ–‰๋™ ์‹ฑํฌํƒฑํฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ€์ดํ‹ฐ ํ† ๋จธ์Šค๋Š” "ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์ด ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ๋ด‡, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  AI ํ™œ์šฉ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ถŒํ•œ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ท€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€โ€”๊ธฐ์—…์ธ๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธ๊ฐ€โ€”๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธด์žฅ์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Companies that have adopted the technology contend that a substantial portion of the concerns raised stems from misconceptions about how their pricing tools actually operate.

ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ ์šฐ๋ ค ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ž์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ ์ž‘๋™ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์˜คํ•ด์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

In a blog post last month, Walmart CEO John Furner stated that digital price tags save employees time and keep prices up to date.

์›”๋งˆํŠธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO) ์กด ํผ๋„ˆ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ์—์„œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ตœ์‹  ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

He said the labels are not used to raise prices in response to the weather, the time of day, or individual shoppers.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ด ๋‚ ์”จ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€, ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์‡ผํผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Furner asserted, "We price products, not people."

ํผ๋„ˆ๋Š” "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์— ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋งค๊ธฐ์ง€, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋งค๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, by not always being transparent about the customer data companies collect and how they use it, they have aroused consumers' suspicions and given rise to all manner of speculation.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ทธ ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Œ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ์˜์‹ฌ์„ ์ž์•„๋‚ด๊ณ  ๊ฐ–๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”์ธก์„ ๋‚ณ์•˜๋‹ค.

Thomas said, for instance, that social media posts claiming the electronic shelf labels Walmart plans to roll out in all its U.S. stores scan shoppers' faces or phones to set individualized prices were a misrepresentation of the facts.

์˜ˆ์ปจ๋Œ€ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋งค์žฅ์— ๋„์ž…ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ธ ์ „์ž ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ด ์‡ผํผ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด๋‚˜ ํœด๋Œ€์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ์Šค์บ”ํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ „๋‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ† ๋จธ์Šค๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Lawmakers and regulatory authorities are taking action.

์˜์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์ด ํ–‰๋™์— ๋‚˜์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), lawmakers in at least 30 states have deliberated pricing-related legislation this year, including measures that address algorithmic and personalized pricing.

์ „๋ฏธ์ฃผ์˜ํšŒํ˜‘์˜ํšŒ(NCSL)์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ตœ์†Œ 30๊ฐœ ์ฃผ์˜ ์˜์›๋“ค์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ์‹ฌ์˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๋ฐ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด ํฌํ•จ๋œ๋‹ค.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed an enforcement policy warning that companies which fail to disclose their use of personal data for the purpose of individualized pricing may be in violation of consumer protection law.

์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์œ„์›ํšŒ(FTC)๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์„ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•  ์†Œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง‘ํ–‰ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The following are the pricing practices and technologies currently capturing the public's attention.

๋‹ค์Œ์€ ํ˜„์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์„ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ด๋ชฉ์„ ์ง‘์ค‘์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ๊ด€ํ–‰ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค.

What is it: Dynamic pricing means adjusting prices in response to ever-shifting market conditions, including supply and demand.

๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€: ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์ด๋ž€ ์ˆ˜์š”์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฌด์Œํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์ƒ์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค.

An airline that adjusts ticket prices as departure time approaches is operating dynamic pricing.

์ถœ๋ฐœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ•ญ๊ณต๊ถŒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์„ ์šด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

Uber's practice of raising fares when demand outstrips the available supply of drivers, as during rush hour, is a type of dynamic pricing known as surge pricing.

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์›Œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์šฉ ์šด์ „์ž ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•  ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฒ„๊ฐ€ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์€ ์„œ์ง€ ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ(surge pricing)์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์˜ ํ•œ ์œ ํ˜•์ด๋‹ค.

Why it matters: Frequent price fluctuations manifest on a far broader scale, extending well beyond the category of food.

์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€: ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ์˜ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค.

Decodo, a web data company, tracked the 2025 price fluctuations of products ranging from electronics to clothing and home improvement goods.

์›น ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋„(Decodo)๋Š” ์ „์ž์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฅ˜, ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐœ๋Ÿ‰ ์šฉํ’ˆ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์˜ 2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์„ ์ถ”์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Gabriele Witke, a senior product marketing manager, said that contrary to the common consumer perception that dynamic pricing only raises prices, roughly half of the recorded fluctuations in the United States were price decreases.

์„ ์ž„ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €์ธ ๊ฐ€๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์—˜๋ ˆ ๋น„ํŠธ์ผ€๋Š” ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ํ†ต๋…๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ธฐ๋ก๋œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๋ณ€๋™์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์ด ์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

What it is: a digital display that enables stores to update shelf prices electronically instead of replacing paper price tags.

๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€: ์ข…์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ๋งค์žฅ์ด ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ „์ž์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

Why it matters: Digital price labels, long in use across Europe and Asia, are gaining even greater prominence as they spread to major American retailers such as Walmart and Whole Foods.

์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€: ์œ ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ์•„์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ผ ์˜จ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์€ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์™€ ํ™€ํ‘ธ๋“œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋กœ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ๊ด‘์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Consumer advocacy groups have argued that digital labels could ultimately be harnessed for surge pricing or personalized pricing.

์†Œ๋น„์ž ์˜นํ˜ธ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ด ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์ง€ ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Labor unions, too, have come out against the technology.

๋…ธ๋™์กฐํ•ฉ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Although electronic shelf labels facilitate frequent price changes, one cannot assert that this inevitably culminates in higher prices during periods of robust demand.

์ „์ž ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์€ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ์šฉ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค.

According to Asa Pakuhar of the retail technology firm Relex Solutions, because shoppers tend to prize consistency, retailers typically update electronic shelf prices on a regular schedule, often on a weekly basis.

๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฆด๋ ‰์Šค ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์Šค(Relex Solutions)์˜ ์•„์‚ฌ ํŒŒ์ฟ ํ•˜๋ฅด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์ด ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ์— ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ผ์ •, ํ”ํžˆ ๋งค์ฃผ ๋‹จ์œ„๋กœ ์ „์ž ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Researchers who tracked prices at an anonymous grocery chain reported that since the labels were introduced, there was "virtually no surge pricing."

ํ•œ ์ต๋ช…์˜ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ์ฒด์ธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ถ”์ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ผ๋ฒจ ๋„์ž… ์ดํ›„ "์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์„œ์ง€ ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Pakuhar said, "The practice of varying prices throughout the day in the manner adopted by airlines or ride-hailing apps is extremely unusual in the grocery and general merchandise sectors today."

ํŒŒ์ฟ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” "ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰ ํ˜ธ์ถœ ์•ฑ์ด ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ณ€๋™์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ์ด๋ก€์ ์ด๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Personalized pricing refers to the practice of charging different prices and discounts to individual customers on the basis of their location, income, web-browsing habits, and other information about the person or the shopper segment to which they belong.

๊ฐœ์ธํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ž€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์œ„์น˜, ์†Œ๋“, ์›น ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ง• ์Šต๊ด€ ๋ฐ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋˜๋Š” ์‡ผํผ ์ง‘๋‹จ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฌํƒ€ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ณ„๋กœ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ํ• ์ธ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ์ง€์นญํ•œ๋‹ค.

Some advocacy groups and regulatory authorities use the term "surveillance pricing" to describe this very practice.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜นํ˜ธ ๋‹จ์ฒด์™€ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ๋‘๊ณ  '๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์šฉ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค.

Why it matters: it remains unclear how extensively companies are deploying personal data to tailor pricing.

์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€: ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋งž์ถคํ™”์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค.

According to an FTC staff report released in January 2025, intermediaries offering price- and promotion-tailoring tools were found to have done business with at least 250 client companies, including grocery and apparel retailers.

2025๋…„ 1์›”์— ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ FTC ์ง์› ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ๋งž์ถคํ™” ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐœ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์˜๋ฅ˜ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์ตœ์†Œ 250๊ฐœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ๋‹ค.

Legislators in Maryland, New Jersey, and Connecticut have recently enacted regulations restricting the practice of using consumers' personal data to determine the prices they pay.

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€, ์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท์˜ ์˜์›๋“ค์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์ง€๋ถˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์‚ฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์ œ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Whereas the laws in Maryland and New Jersey focus on groceries while allowing exceptions for certain loyalty discounts and other promotional benefits, the Connecticut bill takes a broader range of retail purchases as its regulatory target.

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์€ ํŠน์ • ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ• ์ธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํ˜œํƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท์˜ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ทœ์œจ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

In 2022, California prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Target, alleging that the retailer's app displayed lower prices until shoppers entered the store, whereupon it raised them once they were inside.

2022๋…„, ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์€ ํƒ€๊นƒ์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์˜ ์•ฑ์ด ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์žฅ์— ์ž…์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—๋Š” ๋” ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋‹จ ๋งค์žฅ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Target agreed to pay a settlement of $5 million and also consented to a measure prohibiting price increases effected through so-called geofencing technology, thereby accepting a series of obligations surrounding the dispute.

ํƒ€๊นƒ์€ 500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ•ฉ์˜๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ฐ๋‹ค, ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ์ง€์˜คํŽœ์‹ฑ(geofencing) ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜์—๋„ ๋™์˜ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„์Ÿ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ์˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Target stated that the app feature in question was used to "provide customers with accurate prices that may vary by store and channel."

ํƒ€๊นƒ์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์•ฑ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด "๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ์ฑ„๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณต"ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

The retailer said it had never personalized prices based on customer data or behavior, and that it is "committed to clear and transparent pricing."

์ด ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋‚˜ ํ–‰๋™์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, "๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ์ „๋…"ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The mere fact that prices differ is not sufficient grounds to conclude that personal data was used.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ƒ์ดํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค.

According to a joint investigation last year by Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative, and More Perfect Union, Instacart shoppers were found to have been quoted differing prices for the same product at the same store.

์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ์ปจ์Šˆ๋จธ ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ, ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ์›Œํฌ ์ฝœ๋ž˜๋ฒ„๋ ˆ์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ, ๋ชจ์–ด ํผํŽ™ํŠธ ์œ ๋‹ˆ์–ธ์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ธ์Šคํƒ€์นดํŠธ์˜ ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์€ ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„œ๋กœ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ œ์‹œ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

In response, Instacart subsequently clarified that this had been a test in which shoppers were randomly assigned to groups rather than a form of pricing based on personal information, and then discontinued the test.

์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ธ์Šคํƒ€์นดํŠธ๋Š” ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์„ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ๋ฐฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด๋ช…ํ•œ ๋’ค ํ•ด๋‹น ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

What it is: Algorithmic pricing refers to the use of software to recommend or automatically set prices.

๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€: ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ž€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์ง€์นญํ•œ๋‹ค.

Companies have been operating such systems for decades.

๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์šด์šฉํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

AI can help software identify patterns in sales performance, competitors' prices, and other information to forecast demand and estimate how different pricing approaches might affect sales and profits.

AI๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค ์‹ค์ , ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ •๋ณด๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด ํŒ๋งค์™€ ์ด์ต์— ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง€ ์ถ”์ •ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

These tools can support both dynamic pricing and personalized pricing.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Why it matters: Although it remains unclear how extensively retailers are deploying AI in pricing, research indicates that firms across a range of industries are adopting it.

์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€: ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— AI๋ฅผ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‚˜, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค.

In a survey conducted last year by the global consulting firm Simon-Kucher of more than 2,200 business leaders across 28 countries and 39 industries, 41% of respondents said they use AI software to gather market intelligence, including competitors' prices, while another 28% said they use it for "real-time price optimization."

๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ๊ธฐ์—… ์‚ฌ์ด๋จผ-์ฟ ์ฒ˜(Simon-Kucher)๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ 28๊ฐœ๊ตญ, 39๊ฐœ ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๊ฑธ์นœ 2,200๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ฌธ์„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์‘๋‹ต์ž์˜ 41%๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ AI ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ 28%๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ "์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ตœ์ ํ™”"์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Price optimization means selecting prices that advance business objectives such as boosting profits, attracting shoppers, or clearing unsold merchandise.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ž€ ์ด์ต ์ฆ๋Œ€, ์‡ผํผ ์œ ์น˜, ๋ฏธํŒ๋งค ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ง„์ „์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค.

The National Retail Federation (NRF), an organization representing both large and small stores, stated that algorithmic pricing is merely a new iteration of what retailers have long doneโ€”namely, monitoring and adjusting prices in response to supply, demand, seasonality, competitor pricing, and other factors.

์ „๋ฏธ์†Œ๋งค์—ฐ๋งน(NRF)์€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๋ฐ ์†Œํ˜• ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ฒด๋กœ์„œ, ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ž€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ข…๋ž˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด ์˜จ ํ–‰์œ„โ€”์ฆ‰ ๊ณต๊ธ‰, ์ˆ˜์š”, ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์š”์ธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

In some lawsuits, it has even been alleged that companies used pricing algorithms to undermine competition.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ํ›ผ์†ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋ €๋‹ค.

In the 2023 antitrust lawsuit the FTC brought against Amazon, the agency challenged, among various practices, an algorithmic tool referred to by the code name 'Project Nessie.'

2023๋…„ FTC๊ฐ€ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋…์  ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ด€ํ–‰ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 'ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋„ค์‹œ(Project Nessie)'๋ผ๋Š” ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์นญ๋œ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๋„๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The agency alleged that Amazon used this tool to identify products that competitors were likely to follow, then raised prices, thereby generating profits exceeding one billion dollars.

ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ๊ด€์€ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์ด ๋™ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์ถ”์ข…ํ•  ๊ฐœ์—ฐ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋’ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

With the trial scheduled for next year, Amazon countered that the FTC's claims "grossly mischaracterize" the pricing tool.

์žฌํŒ์ด ๋‚ด๋…„์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ FTC์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ "์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์™œ๊ณก"ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The e-commerce giant stated that Project Nessie was intended to prevent retail price-matching practices from driving prices down to unsustainably low levels.

์ด ์ „์ž์ƒ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋„ค์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋งค์นญ ๊ด€ํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ง€์† ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ €์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Amazon said it had tested the tool for several years, but that it did not work as intended and was scrapped before the federal agency's lawsuit was filed.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์ž์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์‹œํ—˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์˜๋„ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์˜ ์†Œ์†ก์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ํ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A recent consumer lawsuit filed against McDonald's alleged that the company's pricing system had adjusted prices by drawing on non-public sales data from competing locations.

๋งฅ๋„๋‚ ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์ง€์ ์˜ ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Chicago-based burger giant countered that the suit is "rife with inaccuracies," stating that it provides the tool to help its U.S. franchisees set prices for individual restaurants.

์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์— ๋ณธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘” ์ด ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์†Œ์†ก์ด "๋ถ€์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€๋งน์ ์ฃผ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์‹๋‹น์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

October 19th, 2026

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