Book · 2026 · Business & Economics
Gouged
The End of a Fair Price--and What That Means for Your Wallet
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Lindsay Owens Like in the book, I tell this crazy story in the 1990s, the CEO of Coke was down in Brazil, like probably t… 4
Discussed
“I heard you say a little bit ago about experiments that they were running on consumers. What are some of those? And do you talk about those in your book? Yeah. So the craziest experiment that I talk about in the book is an experiment that my organization ran with Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union in December of last”
Discussed
“Like in the book, I tell this crazy story in the 1990s, the CEO of Coke was down in Brazil, like probably thought no one was paying attention.”
Discussed
“So in the book, I have an example of the Savannah bananas, which is like a baseball team. That's also kind of like a magic Mike baseball. Right. Yeah.”
Discussed
“But there is one example in the book of, you know, someone looking at Target prices in the app. And then once they got to the store, the prices in the app increased because they use location tracking.”
Theo Von Um, just so we know, like in your book, there's a lot of different terminology. There's price gouging, dyna… 1
Discussed
“Um, just so we know, like in your book, there's a lot of different terminology. There's price gouging, dynamic pricing, um, algorithmic pricing, surveillance pricing.”
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Passing
“She has a new book called Gouged the End of a Fair Price and what that means for your wallet. Um, I learned a lot and I'm thankful for her time.”
Passing
“You know, um, Lindsay Owens, the author of Gouged. Yep. Thank you so much for joining us today. You are a kind of a consumer advocate and a watchdog.”
Plugged
“Or massages. Yeah. I've never gotten a massage, but like, even like when I announced that my book was coming out, my phone started like blowing up with lobbyists in town that I hadn't talked to in decades.”
Plugged
“Like, save your money. Use your money to deal with all the price gouging out there. But, yeah, you can find the book at gougedbook.com or anywhere books are sold.”
Plugged
“Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, you're doing it, you know, and so thank you for just sharing, too, what's going on. Congratulations on your book.”
Plugged
“But you are. And so thank you so much, Lindsay Owens. I've got to get a copy of your book. Can we put it up on our shelf? Absolutely. That'd be excellent.”