Airlines and travel search engines, such as Expedia, claim dynamic and surveillance pricing help them offer tailored experiences, but they’re also about boosting profits. Ever feel like flight prices ...
Dynamic pricing often gets blamed for inconsistent price changes. Customers see mismatched numbers and assume the pricing model has gone wrong or an algorithm has overstepped. In most cases, neither ...
March 04, 2026 - Dynamic pricing sits at the focal point of regulatory crosshairs. Also called algorithmic or "surveillance pricing," this type of pricing uses customers' personal data to set ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. Your Uber costs more at 5 pm on a Tuesday than it does at 8 pm.
No one loves that, except perhaps whoever is in charge of revenue maximization at Delta or JetBlue. But now, thanks to technology, this same sort of dynamic pricing is now coming to many other ...
If you've been following the latest trends in how grocery stores are run, you may have heard about dynamic pricing. The strategy, which also goes by several other names including algorithmic pricing ...
The airline industry is headed for record revenue this year — $996 billion — as the demand for travel soars. But the margins remain razor-thin. According to the trade association IATA, total expenses ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. But these days, companies are harnessing huge amounts of data to fine-tune their ...
The random nature of both renewable energy supply and demand patterns poses a significant challenge to energy balancing in microgrids. This unpredictability impacts key power system parameters, ...
In my previous article, From static to strategic: The shift to dynamic pricing models, I outlined why traditional fixed-price approaches are no longer sufficient in today’s volatile supply chain ...