Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing

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Summary:
- Walmart has officially denied intentions to implement "surveillance pricing," a retail strategy that uses real-time data to adjust prices based on customer behavior or demographic profiles.
- Despite the denial, the company holds active patents for technologies that would enable such tracking, raising concerns among privacy advocates about the potential for future integration of AI-driven, dynamic pricing models in physical stores.

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