Price Descrimination Research

Document Type:Research Paper

Subject Area:Economics

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The discovery led research to probe an intensive research into X’s price discrimination where an interview with a store manager at San Francisco California was conducted; his name and the name of his store has since then been concealed due to the ethical requirements of this research. Before delving into the X-GPP incident, the research sought to first understand this concept of price discrimination. Bohren, Imas, & Rosenberg (2018) describe price discrimination as the deliberate charging of prices across different geographic places or across customers of different characteristics (ages, sexes etc. The interview store manager disclosed to use that price discrimination is a price strategy inadvertently pursued by X. X does it to capture every market surplus and boost its profits. Apparently, this was done to capture consumer surplus across men, women, and boys who have varying extra consuming potential; men have more money at their disposal, followed by women and then boys.

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