{"id":29915,"date":"2026-01-23T04:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2026\/01\/23\/price-gougers-target-buyers-ahead-of-winter-storm-fern\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:11:59","slug":"price-gougers-target-buyers-ahead-of-winter-storm-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2026\/01\/23\/price-gougers-target-buyers-ahead-of-winter-storm-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"Price gougers target buyers ahead of Winter Storm Fern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Winter Storm Fern Brings Price Gouging to Online Retailers<\/h1>\n<p>As winter storm Fern approaches New York City and the Northeast, desperate buyers are facing a surge in apparent price gouging, particularly on online retailer Amazon. The site&#8217;s AI-powered shopping assistant has uncovered significant price increases on essential items, leaving customers to pay inflated prices for necessities.<\/p>\n<h2>Essential Items See Significant Price Increases<\/h2>\n<p>A pair of Amazon Essentials Women&#8217;s Lace-Up Snow Boots with Puffer saw a staggering 91% price increase, rising from $22.85 on Tuesday to $43.70 on Thursday. Similarly, a one-gallon container of Petra Pet Safe Ice Melt jumped from $44.98 on Tuesday to $64.99 on Thursday, a total increase of 44.5%.<\/p>\n<h2>Preparing for Power Outages<\/h2>\n<p>In the event of possible power outages, experts recommend being prepared with flashlights, lanterns, and spare batteries. However, prices for these items are also on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Storm Fern Brings Price Gouging to Online Retailers As winter storm Fern approaches New York City and the Northeast, desperate buyers are facing a surge in apparent price gouging, particularly on online retailer Amazon. The site&#8217;s AI-powered shopping assistant has uncovered significant price increases on essential items, leaving customers to pay inflated prices for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3367,22728,547,15874,22727],"class_list":{"0":"post-29915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle","8":"tag-amazon-company","9":"tag-fern","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-price-gouging","12":"tag-winter-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29917,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29915\/revisions\/29917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}