Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing)
Savers Value Village, the national chain of thrift stores that sells secondhand merchandise, announced this week that it’s using AI to help price its goods in dozens of its 375 stores. The company pays non-profit organizations for things like clothes and household items and then turns around and sells them for a profit. Jubran Tanious, the president and CEO of Savers, explained during an earnings call Thursday how pricing has traditionally worked for the used goods retailer.
- ▪Savers Value Village, the national chain of thrift stores that sells secondhand merchandise, announced this week that it’s using AI to help price its goods in dozens of its 375 stores.
- ▪The company pays non-profit organizations for things like clothes and household items and then turns around and sells them for a profit.
- ▪Jubran Tanious, the president and CEO of Savers, explained during an earnings call Thursday how pricing has traditionally worked for the used goods retailer.
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Savers Value Village, the national chain of thrift stores that sells secondhand merchandise, announced this week that it’s using AI to help price its goods in dozens of its 375 stores. But the company denies that it’s going to be used for so-called dynamic or surveillance pricing, the practices of changing the price quickly based on market conditions or the individual characteristics of who’s doing the…
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