Behavior-Based Price Discrimination and Customer Recognition

When firms are able to recognize their previous customers, they may be able to use their information about the consumers’ past purchases to offer different prices and/or products to consumers with different purchase histories. This article surveys the literature on this “behavior-based price discrimination.”

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