AI is moving B2B pricing from “reports and approvals” to always‑on, agentic price systems with humans in the loop. Worth a read for where deal desks and pricing activities are heading. #pricing
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
A robot in an old fashioned frock coat. In one hand, he holds a giant magnifying glass. On the other stands a child laborer - a coal miner from the 1910s, squinting at the camera. Terrifying energy beams streak out of the robot's eyes into the glass and at the child. The background is an extremely dark, very roughed-up US $100 bill.
What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:
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Nice write up from MIT Sloan: GenAI won’t replace pricing teams, but it can make advanced pricing insight available to everyone in the business. #pricing sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-...
Why Novo Nordisk's Pricing Shift Could Unlock a Much Larger Obesity Market #showbiz #sports #celebrities #lifestyle dome.venus.pp.ua/p/a%3A8224735015077%3Awh...
Input costs for US manufacturers are jumping again just as demand improves. 2026 may be the year pricing teams retest their playbooks for cost pass‑through and customer segmentation. #pricing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Is the future of SaaS AI bring-your-own-tokens? #pricing
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In a casino, the house always wins. Surveillance pricing is just a digital version of the same game — your data is the deck, and it's stacked against you.
Sometimes you’ll get 10% off a shirt; other times you’ll be charged 20% more than the person next to you.
Not every B2B industrial needs airline-style dynamic pricing; AI that explains and guides may be more valuable than AI that auto-changes every price point. A decent read from Simon Kucher below... #pricing #B2BPricing
www.simon-kucher.com/en/insights/...
Walmart's AI Pricing Plan Could Let Prices Shift Hourly Based On Demand, Inventory And Customer Behaviour | IBTimes UK www.ibtimes.co.uk/walmart-digi...
the thing about congestion pricing that still shocks me is that it did exactly all the things that it was supposed to do. Policies almost never do that! There's almost always something that doesn't work the way we thought it would!
More inflation impact to agriculture on the way #pricing
Cross-border transfer pricing is how multinational companies price transactions between related entities. Governments use these rules to prevent improper profit shifting. This video explains how it works — and how it can trigger billion-dollar tax bills.
“.. Even the goods less exposed to tariffs have seen prices rise quite sharply.”
- Schwab
Corporate pricing games gone wild! Last year, Amazon changed their prices 116,000+ times, Walmart nearly 69,000, and Kroger 55,000.
When corporations change prices minute to minute, too often working families are the ones getting ripped off.
AI isn’t just tweaking B2B price lists anymore—it’s changing what we charge for. BCG’s latest piece argues the real shift is from seats and static licenses to agentic and outcome-based models, with hybrid steps in between. Worth a read: #pricing www.bcg.com/publications...
In B2B, the question isn’t just “what’s the right price?” but “what’s the right model?” A decent read from Strip... #pricing
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SCOTUS killed IEEPA tariffs. New 10-15% blanket rate is in. Companies that can reprice in days are winning. Companies still stuck in quarterly cycles? They're absorbing the hit. #pricing
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Three states now restrict algorithmic pricing. 50+ bills pending in 24 more. If your AI pricing can't explain itself, regulators will explain it for you. #pricing
www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/p...
The real AI pricing risk in retail isn’t bad models - it’s “surveillance pricing” crossing legal and trust lines. Governance now matters as much as uplift. #pricing www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said that his software company's AI costs are tripling every 3 months but his revenues are not.
One of the most underrated levers in app monetization is simply matching price to local purchasing power.
✅ SaaS and apps that localize pricing for regions consistently see higher conversion and revenue, especially in emerging markets. Some case studies report up to 80–200% conversion lifts.
Sony's PlayStation Store has been testing dynamic pricing on games (Price differences of 5 to 20% for the same game right now)
www.resetera.com/threads/14...
The decoy effect is one of the smartest pricing tricks in SaaS.
$19 starter, $29 pro, $79 business. Pro is only $10 more with all the real perks. Starter suddenly feels limited.
Make one option so obvious most users pick it while feeling like they had a choice.
#saas #pricing
BMW and others are already guiding to 2026 price hikes—long‑range pricing roadmaps are now part of investor communications. finance.yahoo.com/news/5-compa... #pricing
Nearly half of SMBs expect to hike prices in the next 6 months—pricing discipline is now a survival skill, not a luxury. www.newsweek.com/number-of-us... #pricing
Opinion: A settlement agreement between and Federal Trade commission and Express Scripts may prove more transformative than any single pricing overhaul because it has restructured the rebate-driven pharmacy benefit manager model.
Democrats Draw Line on Dynamic Pricing for Essential Goods
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-pa/129766/
AI-enabled pricing experiment illustrates need for consumer protection HARRISBURG − March 4, 2026 – A report published in December…
Blog entry: Why government software is so expensive.
In my experience, there are four major reasons: outsourcing the whole thing, the pricing death spiral, funhouse-mirror price tags, and procurement processes that don't favor quality development.
For that very small community of pricing geeks I know, I've just set up a BlueSky #Pricing Newsfeed. Go over to feeds, and check it out!