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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by brookst on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:44PM (#41630929)
> Walmart charges everyone the same price

This... isn't true. The same item at a Walmart near San Francisco will have a different price than in nowhere, Kansas.

But the person I was responding to was saying that the reasons for a price need to be transparent, which I think is orthogonal to whether a company has universal same-price-for-everyone guarantees.

And most companies do not charge the same thing to everyone, even within a market. Think about AAA and senior discounts, loyalty programs, etc.

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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by acdha on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:36PM (#41631986)
It’s true in a market for Walmart but not Uber, and the same is true for everything else you mentioned – senior discounts don’t vary per-person. I think that’s a fundamental difference since private per-customer pricing opens up the possibility for the kind of abuses which Uber has been accused of repeatedly.
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