OK, Wal-Mart generally has very good prices on their items. And they are willing to price match other stores. BUT NOT other Wal-Marts. My wife purchased two air conditioners from the Hillsboro Wal-Mart recently to supplement the one I bought off eBay for $25 last month. It works fine in one of the small bedrooms but wasn't nearly enough for the master bedroom or living room. So she bought a 5050BTU unit for $109 for the living room and a 10KBTU unit for $208 for the master bedroom.
On one of our grilling demo weekends we were in the Waxahachie and Burleson Wal-Marts and noticed the EXACT same 10K AC unit for $40 less than what we paid. We also noticed milk was $4.13 a gallon at our store and $3 a gallon at these others. So the next time we went to Hillsboro, we asked for $3 a gallon milk (since HEB and Brookshire's and others do that) and got it. We figured, why not do the same thing with the AC unit? We took it our receipts and they told us basically to get lost, that they don't compete with their own stores, only with competing stores.
Our next step now is to pull the AC unit out of the window, the one I spent a half hour carrying heavy stones to the side of the house to make a makeshift weight-distributing tower for, and take it back to Hillsboro for a refund. Then we'll go to the Cleburne or Burleson store and buy the $168 AC and put it up instead. The Hillsboro Wal-Mart will have to sell this unit at a discount since it's opened and used, or they'll have to salvage it out to Liquidation.com or something. And we'll probably buy it back again and toss it in the living room :)
Occupant Ilied Industries: 2
Wal-Mart in Hillsboro: -1
Pnw3d!
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