The Target App Price Switch

that app sucks. i had already picked out a back patio set "in stock" the store and when i went to pick it up the price was almost $150 more.

we haggled forever at the register as they scratched their heads while i held the app open for them.

they ended up trying to price adjust it and ended up giving it to me for $100 less than the price i had in the app

so i guess it ended well.

I figured out about 6 years ago, when we had our first child and baby registry at Target, nearly everything in the store can be purchased at a lower price on the Target website than in stores. Target actually makes shopping more expensive to go to the store!

It was a glaring issue to me then and one of many, many terrible Target management decisions that make them a terrible shopping experience.

I'm surprised this fact has remained unknown this long, but I guess it has been overshadowed by their other more public blunders. e.g. ignoring huge IT shortfalls despite internal and board warnings, poorly planned Canadian expansion, $100 million data breach, understaffed stores, selling an elitist shopping experience when they really sell the same quality stuff as Walmart. The bathroom thing was just the cherry on top, unnecessary political posturing after a series of other really dumb business decisions.

Didn't Best Buy or Circuit City get hammered several years back for doing this same shite? The price you got on your website at home was different than the price you got when you looked it up on their computers on their own networks. You'd show up to the store for one price and there was nothing in the store that would give you as good a price.