price gouging
noun
: charging customers too much money
The company has been accused of price gouging.
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Public perception hasn't been helped by recent memories of supply shortages and pandemic price gouging, but the chorus of concerns about EV sales became noticeably louder toward the end of last year and the beginning of 2024.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Listen to this article With grocery prices skyrocketing, state Attorney General William Tong launched an investigation Thursday into whether major grocery retailers have engaged in price gouging.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2024
In the past eight months since new drilling permits were approved, Newsom pushed for an industry watchdog to investigate possible price gouging at the pump, advocated for a law to plug idle wells seeping methane gas and is now rallying to keep the state’s oil well setback law in place.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
Price shocks have hit everything from eggs and meat to car parts, with experts pointing to corporate price gouging as a major contributor to the crisis.
—Amelia Keyes, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Listen to this article With grocery prices skyrocketing, state Attorney General William Tong launched an investigation Thursday into whether major grocery retailers have engaged in price gouging.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2024
In the past eight months since new drilling permits were approved, Newsom pushed for an industry watchdog to investigate possible price gouging at the pump, advocated for a law to plug idle wells seeping methane gas and is now rallying to keep the state’s oil well setback law in place.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
Price shocks have hit everything from eggs and meat to car parts, with experts pointing to corporate price gouging as a major contributor to the crisis.
—Amelia Keyes, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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“Price gouging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20gouging. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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