Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checking

Lol and doesnt amazon support net neutrality?

Hypocrites.

Simply can't see the attraction of an Amazon store anyway, they're only relevant due to online/shipping to me.

This seems like a pointless idea. I don't need to connect to a store's wifi if I wanted to check prices on my phone.

Amazon has brick and mortar stores?

Some places don't accept Amazon for their price match.

I tried to do it at best buy once and they said Amazon doesn't count.

Not so fast, sometimes the best way to prevent someone from doing something you don't want to do is to patent the idea to ensure it doesn't happen unless you give someone approval. For example, since Amazon has this patent, this would prevent Wal-Mart or Target from setting up this system in their stores unless Amazon gives them permission to do it. I think this might be more of a patent to deal with possible business threats than it is a patent for something they plan to implement.

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Appears to only be valid when using Amazon's in-store WiFi

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Wouldn't be using that shite public wifi anyway.

Amazon also buying Whole Foods

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mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms that happen on its in-store Wi-Fi

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on its in-store Wi-Fi,

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cool, Verizon's network is better anyways

This would violate net neutrality, but I don't know if non-ISPs are asked to adhere to NN.