Instacart scraps controversial app feature amid investigation into skyrocketing prices: 'Once we pulled back the curtain … [they] had no choice'

Instacart scraps controversial app feature amid investigation into skyrocketing prices: 'Once we pulled back the curtain … [they] had no choice'

Instacart announced it will stop letting grocery stores use artificial intelligence software to show different price tags to different customers for identical products, reported CBS News. The move comes after Consumer Reports and the Groundwork Collaborative, a consumer advocacy group, published findings showing that major grocery chains had been testing the technology on shoppers without their knowledge.  Stores including Kroger, Albertsons, Co…