If you've ever seen a restaurant that offers senior discounts or kids-under-10-eat-free offers, you've seen examples of a differential pricing strategy based on age.

3 Types of Price Discrimination. What do variable online airline ticket prices and children's menu prices have in common? They both provide examples of price discrimination. The first allows an ...

One of the more understated, yet effective, pricing strategies at Peter Luger Steak House involves how the menu is structured ...

That allows consumers to shop around. Take this example of an emergency room visit: "The rates vary from $4,100 as the gross price at L.A. Community Hospital to $7,300 at Cedars-Sinai," said McDaneil.

Wendy's is planning to charge different prices depending on the time of day - which means a burger could cost more at lunchtime than mid-afternoon. So-called dynamic pricing might mean that at ...