Toys R Us also didn’t price match with Amazon in order to remain competitive, like some b&m stores such as Best Buy and Target do, who still seem to be surviving in an Amazon world.
Best Buy is struggling but at least putting up a fight. They are shutting down an entire division of 250 smaller stores.
Target has been hurt mainly by some poor top level executive decisions. They’ve closed about a dozen stores this year and shut down their Canadian division in 2015, losing over $2 billion in less than 5 years on that exercise.
Yep. Going the way of Sears and Kmart.
Cue the Bob Dylan
Yeah, price check Legos with TRU and Amazon...pretty big difference.
Online sales have just smoked the crap out of some companies. Not sure they even saw it coming and if they even knew what hit them.
Best Buy keeps reducing. Every time I go it’s completely different in what they offer and how it’s set up. They are desperately trying to stay out of trouble.
my experience is that that BB only pretends to price match ... always excluding equivalent freebies such as free extended warranties and free delivery ... not to mention for some reason their sales staff usually gets pissy if you ask for price matching ... BB doesn’t even carry over-priced, but high-quality cables any longer, carrying only the minimal amount of super-cheap chinese garbage for cables.
I finally quit wasting my time going there as the last few trips I ended up buying nothing ... last time I just drove a few more miles further down to Costco and got a MUCH better deal on the exact same big screen TV, with better, more knowledgeable, and friendlier sales help ...