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Growing Consumer Unease Over US Retailers' Use of AI-Powered Pricing Tools

Growing Consumer Unease Over US Retailers' Use of AI-Powered Pricing Tools

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October 19th, 2026

Growing Consumer Unease Over US Retailers' Use of AI-Powered Pricing Tools

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

American consumers are not merely dissatisfied with high prices.

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

They feel anger and confusion over the way restaurant chains and major retailers increasingly use cutting-edge technology to set prices.

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

In the aisles of grocery stores, paper price tags are rapidly being replaced by digital ones.

์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ํ†ต๋กœ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ข…์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

AI tools help companies decide how much to charge by predicting how customers will respond.

์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI) ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Terms such as 'dynamic pricing' and 'surveillance pricing' are stirring anxiety on social media, where users question whether different people are being charged different prices for the same product.

'๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน ํ”„๋ผ์ด์‹ฑ(dynamic pricing)'๊ณผ '๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •(surveillance pricing)'๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์šฉ์–ด๋Š” ์†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•œ๋‹ค.

Americans have grown accustomed to fluctuating prices when booking flights, hotel rooms, and ride-hailing services, but the prospect that their everyday purchases could be dictated by algorithms they do not understand and by personal data they may not even know they are sharing struck a nerve.

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

Katie Thomas, who leads the in-house consumer behavior think tank at the management consulting firm Kearney, said, "Right now there is considerable tension over who will actually hold the power in the use of these algorithms, bots, and AI โ€” that is, whether it will be companies or consumers."

๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ ์ปค๋‹ˆ(Kearney)์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ํ–‰๋™ ์‹ฑํฌํƒฑํฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋„๋Š” ์ผ€์ดํ‹ฐ ํ† ๋จธ์Šค๋Š” "ํ˜„์žฌ ์ด ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ๋ด‡, AI ํ™œ์šฉ์—์„œ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€, ์ฆ‰ ๊ธฐ์—…์ธ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ํฐ ๊ธด์žฅ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Companies using this technology say that some of the concerns stem from misconceptions about how their pricing tools work.

์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ ค ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ž์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ ์ž‘๋™ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜คํ•ด์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•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 these labels are not used to raise prices based on the weather, the time of day, or individual shoppers.

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

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

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

However, companies did not always disclose transparently the customer data they collect and how they use it, which aroused consumers' suspicion and gave rise to speculation.

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

For example, Thomas said that a social media post claiming that the electronic shelf labels Walmart plans to introduce in all of its U.S. stores would scan shoppers' faces or mobile phones to set individualized prices misrepresented the facts.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์›”๋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 regulators 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 considered pricing-related legislation this year, including measures to regulate 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…์ •์„ ๊ทœ์œจํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed an enforcement policy warning that companies may violate consumer protection law if they fail to disclose that they use personal data to set individualized prices.

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

The following are pricing practices and technologies that are currently drawing attention.

๋‹ค์Œ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ๊ด€ํ–‰๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค.

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

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

Airlines that adjust ticket prices as departure time approaches are making use of dynamic pricing.

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

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

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์›Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์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 occur on a wide scale, extending far beyond the category of food.

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

The web data company Decodo tracked 2025 price fluctuations across a wide range of products, 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— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์˜ 2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์„ ์ถ”์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Gabriele Bitke, a senior product marketing manager, said that, contrary to the common consumer belief that dynamic pricing only raises prices, about 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€๊ฒฉ๋งŒ ์ธ์ƒํ•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 allows 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 ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

Why it matters: Digital price labels, long used in Europe and Asia, are attracting more attention as they spread to major U.S. 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 ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

Labor unions have also opposed this technology.

๋…ธ๋™์กฐํ•ฉ๋„ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Electronic shelf labels make frequent price changes easy, but they do not necessarily lead to higher prices during periods of strong demand.

์ „์ž ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์€ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ์šฉ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Asa Pakuhar of the retail technology company Relex Solutions said that because shoppers value consistency, retailers usually update their electronic shelf prices on a regular schedule, often every week.

๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฆด๋ ‰์Šค ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์Šค(Relex Solutions)์˜ ์•„์‚ฌ ํŒŒ์ฟ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์ด ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋ณดํ†ต ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ผ์ •, ํ”ํžˆ ๋งค์ฃผ ์ „์ž ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Researchers who tracked prices at an anonymous grocery chain reported that since the labels were introduced, there has been "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, as airlines or ride-hailing apps do, is extremely unusual in the grocery and general merchandise sectors today."

ํŒŒ์ฟ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” "ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰ ํ˜ธ์ถœ ์•ฑ์ด ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•˜๋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 means offering different prices and discounts to each customer based on their location, income, web browsing habits, and other information about the individual or the shopper group.

๊ฐœ์ธํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ž€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์œ„์น˜, ์†Œ๋“, ์›น ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ง• ์Šต๊ด€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋˜๋Š” ์‡ผํผ ์ง‘๋‹จ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ํ• ์ธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค.

Some advocacy groups and regulatory authorities refer to the same practice as "surveillance pricing."

์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜นํ˜ธ ๋‹จ์ฒด์™€ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ '๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์šฉ์–ด๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

Why it matters: It remains unclear how extensively companies use personal information to tailor prices.

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

According to an FTC staff report released in January 2025, intermediaries that provide tools for customizing prices and promotions were found to have done business with at least 250 client companies, including grocery and clothing retailers.

2025๋…„ 1์›”์— ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ FTC ์ง์› ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜์„ ๋งž์ถคํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„๊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.

Lawmakers in Maryland, New Jersey, and Connecticut have recently enacted regulations that restrict the use of 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 ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ์ง€๋ถˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์ œ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The laws in Maryland and New Jersey focus on groceries, with exceptions made for certain loyalty discounts and other promotional benefits.

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์˜ ๋ฒ•์€ ํŠน์ • ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ• ์ธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํ˜œํƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Connecticut's legislation covers a broader range of retail purchases.

์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท์˜ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ๋” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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

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

Target agreed to pay a $5 million settlement and to refrain from using so-called geofencing technology to raise prices.

ํƒ€๊นƒ์€ 500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ•ฉ์˜๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ์ง€์˜คํŽœ์‹ฑ(geofencing) ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•ฉ์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Target stated that the app feature at the center of the controversy was used to "provide customers with accurate prices that may vary by store and channel."

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

The retailer stressed that it has 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‚˜ ํ–‰๋™์„ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ "๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ์ „๋…"ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The mere fact that prices differ does not necessarily mean that personal data was used.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค.

According to an investigation last year by Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative, and More Perfect Union, Instacart shoppers were quoted different prices for the same products 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˜ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ธ์Šคํƒ€์นดํŠธ์˜ ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ œ์‹œ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.

Instacart later explained that it had been a test in which shoppers were randomly assigned to groups rather than having prices set based on personal information, and it ended the test.

์ธ์Šคํƒ€์นดํŠธ๋Š” ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‡ผํผ๋“ค์„ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ๋ฐฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•ด๋‹น ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Algorithmic pricing refers to using software to recommend or automatically set prices.

์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ž€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค.

Companies have been operating such systems for decades.

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

AI enables software to identify patterns in sales figures, competitors' prices, and other information so that it can forecast demand and estimate how different pricing approaches will affect sales and profits.

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

Why it matters: It is unclear how extensively retailers are using AI for pricing, but research indicates that companies 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” ๋ถ„๋ช…์น˜ ์•Š์œผ๋‚˜, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๊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 39 industries in 28 countries, 41% 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… ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋จผ-์ฟ ์ฒ˜(Simon-Kucher)๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด 28๊ฐœ๊ตญ 39๊ฐœ ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฆฌ๋” 2,200๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ฌธ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, 41%๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ AI ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ 28%๋Š” "์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ตœ์ ํ™”"์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Price optimization means choosing prices that advance business goals such as boosting profits, attracting shoppers, or clearing unsold inventory.

๊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), which represents both large and small stores, said that algorithmic pricing is a new implementation of something retailers have always done: monitoring and adjusting prices according to supply, demand, seasonality, competitors' prices, and other factors.

๋Œ€ํ˜• ๋ฐ ์†Œํ˜• ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋ฏธ์†Œ๋งค์—ฐ๋งน(NRF)์€ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋Š˜ ํ•ด ์˜จ ์ผ, ์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” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In some lawsuits, it was argued that companies had undermined competition by making use of pricing algorithms.

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

In the antitrust lawsuit that the FTC filed against Amazon in 2023, an algorithmic tool code-named "Project Nessie" was singled out as problematic among various practices.

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…์˜ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ง€๋ชฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The agency alleged that Amazon used this tool to identify products that competitors were likely to follow, then raised prices, thereby generating more than $1 billion in excess profits.

์ด ๊ธฐ๊ด€์€ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์ด ์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๋’ค๋”ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋’ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์ด์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The trial is scheduled for next year, and Amazon has stated that the FTC's claims "seriously distort" the pricing tool.

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

The e-commerce giant stated that Project Nessie was intended to prevent unsustainably low prices from arising as a result of retail price-matching practices.

์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, so the company scrapped it before the federal agency filed its lawsuit.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์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 used confidential sales data from competing locations to adjust prices.

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

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

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

October 19th, 2026

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