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If you've noticed the same goods in different stores at wildly different prices, you're not alone. Experts in "price discrimination" or "the two-price system" say retailers use a well-known economic principle to maximize profit by charging as much as you are willing to pay.
The price of pasta is expected to rise at the grocery store and on restaurant menus because of a summer drought that affected durum wheat drops in Alberta and elsewhere.