> Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store?
No, because they never did that. The explanations that came out ten years ago made sense, about different regions having different pricing structures and the national price not always matching in-store. One spends different amounts to retail items in different areas of the world. That was a Consumerist/Gizmodo/Connecticut hullabaloo over nothing, which continues to this day at pretty much every retailer I can think of. I can totally understand an in-store kiosk showing in-store prices, and there are more non-nefarious explanations for the entire scenario than nefarious. I say that disliking Best Buy.
Take gasoline, for example. Notice it's cheaper when you cross an arbitrary governmental border? California into Nevada is my favorite. Notice Chipotle, hell, Taco Bell is cheaper (sometimes >20%) in some places than others? It's all the same issue.
No, because they never did that. The explanations that came out ten years ago made sense, about different regions having different pricing structures and the national price not always matching in-store. One spends different amounts to retail items in different areas of the world. That was a Consumerist/Gizmodo/Connecticut hullabaloo over nothing, which continues to this day at pretty much every retailer I can think of. I can totally understand an in-store kiosk showing in-store prices, and there are more non-nefarious explanations for the entire scenario than nefarious. I say that disliking Best Buy.
Take gasoline, for example. Notice it's cheaper when you cross an arbitrary governmental border? California into Nevada is my favorite. Notice Chipotle, hell, Taco Bell is cheaper (sometimes >20%) in some places than others? It's all the same issue.