{"id":5458,"date":"2026-09-27T21:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:21:32","slug":"walmart-says-retail-giant-and-ai-shopping-assistant-arent-using-personal-information-to-set-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"Walmart says retail giant and AI shopping assistant aren&#8217;t using personal information to set prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26270711641992-e1790542013937.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walmart is aiming to assuage customers\u2019 fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0a statement\u00a0posted on the company\u2019s website, Walmart Inc.\u2019s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer isn\u2019t using personal information like income, shopping history or a customer\u2019s willingness to pay to set prices, and it won\u2019t be doing so in the future either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t set different prices based on who you are or the time of day, and we won\u2019t,\u201d Furner wrote Friday. \u201cWhether you\u2019re buying groceries or electronics on a hot afternoon or in a sudden rush for an item, it\u2019s never a reason to charge you more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pledge from Walmart comes as\u00a0concerns are mounting from some shoppers, consumer advocates and lawmakers skeptical about the rollout of digital price labels\u00a0by the discounter and other stores. Digital price labels are rapidly replacing paper shelf tags at U.S. supermarkets and let stores change prices instantly from a central computer instead of having workers swap out paper labels by hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furner noted that Walmart is also holding its artificial intelligence shopping assistant Sparky to the same promise and won\u2019t be using the bot to raise a customer\u2019s price or hide lower-priced options that meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furner said such practices would violate the company\u2019s \u201cevery day low prices\u201d business model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also noted that prices can change: Walmart lowers them when it can pass savings along, or sometimes raises them because an item costs more to buy or to transport, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart said in March that\u00a02,300 Walmart U.S. locations\u00a0already use digital shelves, and it expects this technology to be chain-wide within the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart executives have repeatedly said it uses electronic shelf price tags to help the retailer change prices consistently and match what rings up at checkout. It also saves workers time and reduces labor costs by replacing paper tags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, the\u00a0Federal Trade Commission\u00a0said that it\u2019s putting companies on notice that the practice of personalizing pricing could violate consumer protection laws. The agency said it does not have the legal authority to ban personalized pricing in all circumstances, but it issued a new bulletin that warned companies that they must disclose to customers how the personal information is being used to set a price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Walmart #retail #giant #shopping #assistant #arent #personal #information #set #prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart is aiming to assuage c&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[587,7756,297,8542,3918,597,2495,2030,2057,952],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-arent","tag-assistant","tag-giant","tag-information","tag-personal","tag-prices","tag-retail","tag-set","tag-shopping","tag-walmart"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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