price discrimination
the practice of offering identical goods to different buyers at different prices, when the goods cost the same.
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How to use price discrimination in a sentence
More than two decades later, the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 expanded the Sherman Act by prohibiting business activities, such as price discrimination, that companies could use to lay the groundwork for monopolistic practices.
Momentum Is Building for Antitrust Reform. Here's What That Means for Big Tech | Martha C. White | November 12, 2021 | TimeCoupons basically serve two purposes: advertising, and price discrimination.
Coupons basically serve two functions for businesses--advertising, and price discrimination.
Ending price discrimination means low prices here; it means excessively high prices (and a lot of piracy) there.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, Textbooks Will Continue to Be Expensive | Megan McArdle | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut empirical research bears this out; ending price discrimination doesn't necessarily mean consumers get a better deal.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, Textbooks Will Continue to Be Expensive | Megan McArdle | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
But it threatens to undermine the price discrimination regime which keeps textbooks expensive here and cheap abroad.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, Textbooks Will Continue to Be Expensive | Megan McArdle | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for price discrimination
economics the setting of different prices to be charged to different consumers or in different markets for the same goods or services
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