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Bill to ban surveillance-based grocery pricing prompts split testimony from workers, advocates and retailers
Summary
Supporters said HB 2,481 would stop AI-driven individualized and surge pricing and protect grocery workers; retailers and ESL manufacturers called for narrower definitions, and Consumer Reports presented testing that found differing prices for identical online baskets.
The Technology, Economic Development and Veterans Committee took testimony Jan. 21 on House Bill 2,481, which would ban surveillance-based individualized pricing and surge pricing for certain retail goods, require clear posted prices, and pause the use of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in large grocery stores until 2030 while the Department of Commerce studies their impacts.
Prime sponsor Representative Mary Fosse told the committee a core principle should be simple: “a customer that is in the same store buying the same item should pay…
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