Monday, September 21, 2026 · New Jersey
Money & Cost
RMN dispatches tagged Money & Cost.
The Price Tag Knows Who You Are
New Jersey has enacted a law aimed at keeping personal data out of grocery pricing, while the Federal Trade Commission is deciding how aggressively federal consumer-protection law should reach personalized prices nationwide. The emerging fight is not simply over algorithms. It is over whether a price should describe the product in front of you or the person standing in front of it.
Your Credit Score Is a Number. Why Does It Feel Like a Grade?
TomoCredit says nearly 90% of surveyed consumers associate the words “credit score” with something negative. That makes the number worth examining not just as financial information, but as a piece of language that can feel uncomfortably close to a judgment about the person looking at it.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
You Know Things Are Expensive When the Water Bill Becomes a Financial Strategy
A new survey of 113 U.S. mayors suggests the affordability crisis is migrating into the least glamorous parts of household life: utility bills, city fees, food assistance and the quiet decisions people make before they ever call themselves financially strained.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Your Childhood Has Been Premiumized
Nostalgia used to sell us the thing we remembered. Now brands are taking the flavor, memory and cultural shorthand of childhood staples, rebuilding them as premium adult products, and selling the past back in a form that signals who we became.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
They Put Coupon Fraud on a Subscription Plan
A Texas woman was sentenced in Newark federal court after prosecutors said a paid online group gave members unlimited access to counterfeit coupons that produced more than $17.8 million in unauthorized discounts. The fraud was old-fashioned. The delivery model was thoroughly modern.
Reported Feature New Jersey