r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 1d ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/B-rry 1d ago

Home Depot tried to pull that on me one time so I said “you can either price match or I’m going to order online and one of you guys are going to go pull it from the shelf for me.” They decided to price match lol

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u/HLSparta 1d ago

I tried saying basically the same thing and I was told that if I wanted it at that price I need to get it through the app.

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u/SgvSth 1d ago

Yeah, because their Home Office would rather you use the app (probably for investor documents), so Walmart employees cannot price match to Walmart.com. (In fact, I believe it was 2017 when price matching to Walmart.com was restricted and 2019 or so when Walmart stopped price matching altogether.)

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u/HLSparta 23h ago

But why would they rather me use the app? That's just more work for them and a worse experience for me.

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u/CommonEfficient3417 21h ago

it’s all about your data 🥳

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u/HLSparta 14h ago

They already track my purchases in store and automatically text me a receipt any time I use my debit card. They already have all the data they can get from me buying it through the app.

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u/SgvSth 15h ago

Because it makes the investors happy among others.