Why 🦀 TechPublicPolicy picked: Maryland became the first state to bar grocery stores from using electronic pricing tools to adjust the cost of food items throughout the day, which critics say could enable retailers to unfairly manipulate prices at a time when households are already squeezed by rising costs.

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  This is an important update on Maryland's new public policy regarding the regulation of electronic dynamic pricing technologies in retail.

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