McDonald's Uses AI to Price Big Macs by Customer Willingness to Pay

McDonald's is using machine learning across roughly 14,000 restaurants to set location-specific prices based on customers' willingness to pay, drawing criticism over fairness and potential antitrust scrutiny.

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