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Wal-Mart to match prices on Friday

There is no way on God's Green Earth that you will get me within 5 miles of a wallyworld on Black Friday. Imagine clueless associates, 20 closed lanes, 20 open lanes each with 20 people in line, parking lots full, no carts, etc. (come to think of it, that's a standard day at wallyworld)
 
Holy crapballs this is SWEET. I wonder if the stores you're PMing to have to have it in stock.

Just think of the lines tho... and all that white trash beating eachother up for some $0.49 special......
 
But does Walmart have what you want...because if Wlamart has it, it wil ikely be a different variant (differetn model number, like an added "a" at the end)? Can you pricematch to themselves? Also, it said it has to be in stock.....
 
Originally posted by: cheetoden
Yea, but what about an item that has a rebate at another store?
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Well at the very least wallmart would be a good place to PM all those CC movies. CC usually never has any of the advertised movies in stock, neveryoumind BF, so wallmart for the movies!
 
I'm not sure but, I'm feeling that it won't really matter. Since most Black Friday deals are limited stock items and Walmart has specifed in stock items. So any of the real loss leaders stuff will probably be sold out by the time you try and price match. I could be wrong though.
 
Just wanted to confirm, the walmart add they have in their store says they'll pricematch on BF. Agree, good place to go to price match for movies. And I'd take wal-mart on BF over bb or cc. Last year the lines at cc wound pretty much through every isle in the store.
 
"As part of the promotion, Wal-Mart stores will match any price featured in a local competitor's print advertisement if it has the identical product in stock."

Good luck.
 
I just can't imagine them having the tellers call other stores to check inventory. The place is going to be insane, they're just going to try and rush people through as fast as possible. No manager in their right mind is going to hold up those lines to check a $5.00 price match.
 
Originally posted by: nunya
I just can't imagine them having the tellers call other stores to check inventory. The place is going to be insane, they're just going to try and rush people through as fast as possible. No manager in their right mind is going to hold up those lines to check a $5.00 price match.
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Walmart doesn't call other stores when price matching to check inventory.
 
You can also be a sneaky bastard and lay away all the stuff on your wish list prior to BF. In most cases, they'll let you price match what you already have on lay away, if you ask them the day of the sale/promotion.
 
Because of this if I do any shopping on BF it will at Walmart. They might win me back as a shopper if this goes well.
 
I agree with soflawill. I can pciture the damn intersection and whole mall parking lot near my Wallmart backed up that morning. It would be like being in Hell with all the people and product just strewn all over, with the only perk being that I could learn a few new languages. By the time you ask 20 employees where to find a product and wait 2+ hours to checkout, you could have just gone to all the individual stores and kept your sanity.
 
Walmart strategy:
purchase in advance, when bestbuy/circuit city/staples/wherever opens at 6am, be in line at walmart with your bag of returns. Go to the return desk (I'd guess there will be no line there at that time), return, repurchase with price match. Suggest to them that they save their time - even if the store you were PM'ing to had none of the loss leaders left on the shelf, the items would still be in people's carts and thus, technically still in stock 🙂

However, and please correct me if I'm wrong, model numbers at Walmart are often verrrry similar, just an added letter. As someone explained in some other thread here, the difference that little letter made at the end meant that the name brand company that produced the (laptop in the case someone posted about) item completely switched components inside, rather than using name brand components (ie, instead of maxtor or western digital for the hard drive, the hard drive was made in some company from Shanghai; similarly none of the other components were made by recognizable manufacturers.)
 
Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
Interesting, but how reliable this information is? It's pretty bold to match prices on black friday...
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welcome to the forums i guess. big retailers have been price matching printed adds for the last number of years i have been involved here.
 
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