Our June special issue on pricing is live!

It seems like everywhere you turn, consumers are being gouged. Price hikes are nothing new, but in 2024, they’ve been reinvented, and companies have a variety of tricks and questionable business practices employed to capture more of your money and grow record profits at the expense of consumers.

That’s why we teamed up with Groundwork Collaborative for our June print issue, to explore how these pricing strategies work to wring as much out of the American public as possible, and how they affect your everyday life.

To kick off the series, Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative, and I wrote about the age of recoupment: how corporations have shifted from indiscriminately cutting costs to raising prices. Prices are becoming increasingly unmoored from the fundamentals, like the cost of labor or materials. In its place, a new corporate credo has emerged: The best price is the one consumers are willing to pay.

You can read the piece here.

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