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.

Ha. So sketch.

Target come out with a statement yet? Or still focused on men in the womens bathroom push?

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.

Logically it makes sense stuff in a store should cost more, but the economic reality is different. Having inconsistent prices is a dangerous game (that's a big reason K Mart failed) especially when people will pay more for the convenience of online shopping.

Carrying the same logic forward, if the stores are just an additional cost to the consumer, Target should scrap the stores completely and just sell online (but then their whole "elite" shopping experience disappears). At a minimum, the price discrepancy discourages in store shopping, which is undoubtedly not good for their retail business.

Y’all think the hot soccer moms rolling up in a Denali care if something costs more in there? It’s about getting that Pumpkin spice latte and strolling around for 2 hours around lunch time experience.

walmart does the same, store prices are higher then internet prices

their excuse is the actual real stores have to pay employees

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Yeah another reason to turn that location option off. For everything!!

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Won't matter, Baw. Not even in airplane mode.

Google and the Suck-it-berg-ites have us all "chipped" via intentional dependency on our phones. Powering them off or leaving at home is the only way to defeat tracking data.

These mfers know when we get in/out of the car, if we're walking or sedentary...it's fuxked up Illuminati level shite, and its reality.
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the relatively few hot moms

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Every time I’ve been in a Target it’s flooded with them. If that’s relatively few I’d love to see what a lot looks like.

What I don’t get is that you could still purchase it online and pickup in store. I don’t know how that figures for overhead when you have to have an army of employees start pulling inventory off the shelf for online pickup. And then you start printing extra stickers to identify what is for which purchase.

That to me would be more costly than having the same price for both and I go check it out. Which at some stores you are now doing that yourself.

What I don’t understand on the retail level if they want to start beating Amazon why not use your stores as miniwharehouses and ship to your lazy customers who don’t want to pick up their stuff from the store. In most places depending on geographic restrictions, this could be one day delivery or if UPS or Fedex want they could even do same day delivery.

You could even possibly even get into the delivery business too.