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New York's Sweeping Algorithmic Pricing Reforms - What Retailers Need to Know

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On May 9, 2025, New York signed into law the Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act – a first-of-its-kind law mandating businesses to disclose the use of algorithmic pricing based on personal data. ...more

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From Cart to Court: New York Demands Algorithmic Price Transparency

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A typical tactic employed by retailers is to reduce the price of an item that has remained in a consumer’s shopping cart. This practice may now become illegal if those retailers fail to state, “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN...more

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What’s in Your Wallet: National Retail Federation Files Suit Against New York Algorithmic Pricing Law

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What is algorithmic pricing? The Canadian Competition Bureau broadly defines it as “the process of using automated algorithms to set or recommend prices for products of services, often in real time, based on a set of data...more

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What Really is Surveillance Pricing? The FTC is Trying to Figure It Out

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in a company’s work processes is not new. AI has automated, innovated, and optimized a business’s processes and outcomes. In recent years, tech firms and consultants have been touting...more

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State AGs, Staff Discuss Algorithms & Organized Retail Crime at Symposium

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On April 18, 2023, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) held its annual Attorney General Symposium in Philadelphia, PA. State AGs, AG office staff, and private sector attendees gathered to hear from panelists...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Key Takeaways from the National Association of Attorneys General 2023 Annual Symposium

On April 18, 2023, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) held a public session as part of its three-day Annual Symposium in Philadelphia. Throughout the day, Attorneys General, their senior staff, law...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.3.2020 | Top Story: CBO Projects U.S. Nat’l Debt Will Nearly Eclipse GDP for First Time Since WWII

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New figures from the Congressional Budget Office predict that U.S. government debt will, thanks to the pandemic recession, just about eclipse the size of the nation’s GDP—a level not reached since just after World War II....more

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The holiday shopping rush is here – Eight things retailers need to know this season

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As the saying goes, it's the most wonderful time of the year – but it is also the busiest time for retailers. As merchants seek to cash in on the holiday shopping rush, we are noticing trends that have potentially significant...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.02.2019 | Top Story: US Restores Metal Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil

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The White House will again slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Argentina and Brazil in an apparent reaction to “massive devaluation” of  currencies in both South American nations....more

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Website Prices, Influencers and Big Data: Marketing in Canada’s Digital Economy

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Prices on e-commerce platforms, social media influencers and the use of big data are trending right now under the deceptive marketing provisions of Canada’s Competition Act....more

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Retailers - can you be liable for cartel behaviour for using pricing software and algorithms?

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A key issue regulators are grappling with is what antitrust liability can attach to retailers who use price matching software or other algorithms to match competitors’ online prices? In a speech made on 16 March 2017,...more

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“In fashioning myself, I fashion man” – E-Tailers Champion A Sartorial Renaissance in Masculinity

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When it comes to shopping, men generally fall into one of two camps: (a) those who simply don’t know how to shop and would rather book their next root canal before embarking on such an experience and (b) those who don’t have...more

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