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This article addresses the price discrimination in the American healthcare system. It pertains to both medical treatments and procedures, as well as medications. Specifically, it talks about the price discrimination that occurs against the lower and middle classes. This is a growing problem, seeing as many treatments are becoming highly advanced (and therefore very expensive).

This article relates to price discrimination with time as facor, since Wal-Mart is charging different prices at differents moments of the year, under the title of discounts.

This is a a comment by Daniel Hamermesh on the Price discrimination apple uses with iPhone applications. Some applications with only a few more features cost a great deal more.

Discount retailer Dollarama says solid sales driven by new, higher-priced products and the opening of 42 stores last year helped boost its profit in the latest quarter. Although the firm is a dollar-shop, its controversial price tagging of over $1 is bringing product - essntially a price discrimination to increase its profit.

This article reports on the a small Sri Lankan tea company called Dilmah challenging the world's transnational tea manufacturers like Twinings and Lipton. Dilmah is selling high-quality, exclusive teas at higher price than the market price. Ultimately, Dilmah is selling the "exclusiveness" rather than the actual price.

This article is about a small company of Sri Lankan tea called "Dilmah". The tea factory is challenging the world´s transnational tea manufactures such as Lipton and Twinings. It is selling high quality, Dilmah is selling select and exclusive teas at higher prices. so we can say that the company is selling exclusiveness rather than the actual price.

They have excellent tea, actually.

This article is about holiday shopping in local stores. Many stores offer sales during the holiday seasons. This is a form of price discrimination, as it is different prices charged for the same product based on time of year.

This article is talking about how different car companies are starting to sell electric cars because consumers have become interested in helping the environment. In response, car companies have started to produce environmentally friendly cars to apease the consumers. This shows non-price discrimination in the consumer because they are no longer looking for the lowest prices, they are looking for the most environmentally friendly.

This article talks about the car industry and how various care companies are trying themselves. Many are trying to be the "most environmentally friendly". Some keeping performance as their distinguishing factor. All of this shows forms of non-price discrimination in the marker

This article describes the attempts of American senators to allow American pharmacies and patients to import prescription drugs from other countries at government controlled rates, thus avoiding higher, unregulated prices in the US.