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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Why Are Big-Box Stores Pricing Barbies Differently By Race?
Are pricing algorithms racist? That’s not really possible, and several big retailers are blaming “pricing errors” for discrepancies in the prices of Barbie dolls of different ethnicities. Shoppers interested in a doll in a figure-skating costume, for example, have to pay $1.99 extra at Walmart for a doll with darker skin and black hair. How does that happen?
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Is the same price. One was just on sale. Maybe they had too many and needed to reduce price to liquidate? Law of supply and demand. Too much supply, low demand, lower prices. Its nice the store gave the lower price though.
Same thing at Tuesday morning for the large dolls with ponies. Quite odd. I don"t recall which one was more expensive, but they were priced differently.
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