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Re: WooHoo!!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:41:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Demlow writes:
> Jeff Stembel (Dragonelf1@aol.com) wrote:
> 
> > ... I then headed down to the Wheaton TRU ...
> > Then, with my Target ad in hand, I grab 4561.
> 
> My brother tried to have TRU price-match the 4561 (this being the one week
> out of the year that I'm not near a TRU, of course).  He'd just been across
> the street at Target and they had a 4561 in stock.  The TRU cashier said
> that she had to verify with Target that they had the item in stock before
> TRU would price match it.  She called Target which reported that it didn't
> have the item in stock, so, no price match.  Has anyone else gotten this
> response from TRU?  I've price matched at other stores with no such problems.
> 
> Thanks anyway, Alan. :)
> 
> Steve
> --
> Barb & Steve Demlow  |  demlow@visi.com  |  www.visi.com/~demlow/

That *does* seem reasonable (although it sucks that Target didn't
fess to having it in stock) -- no reason for them to match the price
if you can't actually go to Target and buy the same set.  Still a bummer,
though, that they bothered to check.  I bet if your brother had had
a flyer advertising that price, they wouldn't have called
and checked.

--

jthompson@esker.com



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  Re: WooHoo!!
 
(...) He did have the flyer - they still called. Steve (27 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: WooHoo!!
 
Yeah, this was a case where I thought that the manager of that TRU should probably take some time off work to take a few business courses, because what they did was sure inane business policy (this was in Jackson, Mich. for anybody who cares). This (...) (27 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: WooHoo!!
 
(...) My brother tried to have TRU price-match the 4561 (this being the one week out of the year that I'm not near a TRU, of course). He'd just been across the street at Target and they had a 4561 in stock. The TRU cashier said that she had to (...) (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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