<story><title>CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Another reason chains do this is to see if customers have extra disposable income in that locale so they can raise prices on items there.&lt;p&gt;This is the same reason you’ll see this at grocery stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>Yeah, this is the real reason they do this even though they know it annoys you. It is a very strong signal of price sensitivity, it’s because they can’t ask “do you feel like you still have money left over” after each purchase.&lt;p&gt;Somewhere some data scientist made the world more annoying. Similar to how they figured they could make more money by putting milk in the back of the store.</text></comment>
<story><title>CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Another reason chains do this is to see if customers have extra disposable income in that locale so they can raise prices on items there.&lt;p&gt;This is the same reason you’ll see this at grocery stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>Is there a citation for this? TBH it sounds like a just so story - in my experience, grocery store prices in a city are pretty uniform.</text></comment>