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Best Buy made a come back by offering price matching.

• sdegutis 7y ago
  They've always done price matching, that's how they got their name when they came out in the 90s. But they still don't have a great selection and in my experience it's rarely worth it to shop there compared to Amazon for all the reasons stated above.
  • pmorici 7y ago
    They originally wouldn't match online retailers only brick and mortar competitors as I understand it. As part of the turnaround, implemented in 2012 they started matching Amazon and a few select online retailers. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/best-buy-amazon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/best-buy-amazon....
    • learc83 7y ago
      Worked there in college. You are correct--they definitely did not match Amazon prices when I worked there. They wouldn't even match their own online prices at first.
• leetcrew 7y ago
  maybe I'm just unlucky, but the few times I've gone to best buy I looked up the price on Amazon first and then went to best buy expecting them to price match. every time they had a slightly different sku from the item on Amazon and charged significantly more money. the sample is too small to say for sure, but I suspect they commission custom runs of things like flash drives that would be too cheap to profit off of if they were actually exposed to matching Amazon prices.
  • StudentStuff 7y ago
    Best Bu, Target & Walmart all do lower prices online, and higher in-store prices. The former two have repeatedly refused to match their own website's prices for me.
    • plushpuffin 7y ago
      Also, Best Buy used to have an internal website at their stores with higher prices so they could claim their in-store prices were the same as their website prices https://consumerist.com/2007/02/best-buys-secret-employee-only-in-store-website-shows-different-prices-than-public-website.html https://consumerist.com/2007/02/best-buys-secret-employee-on...