Best Buy Sorry for Price Gouging Water During Hurricane Harvey

Yes, that is often what upper management does in this PC, low information, poorly educated, Fake News World. They apologize and scapegoat lowly underpaid retail employees who are simply pricing things at the every day price and doing so in a manner that might make management feel uncomfortable.

Best Buy should not have apologized for selling water at the same per unit price they sell it for every day of the week.

301 posted on 08/30/2017 8:07:33 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

To: Jim from C-Town

Oh it’s fake news? And the other reason you gave for their apology was because Best Buy are pussies!

Thanks for your input!

302 posted on 08/30/2017 8:07:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

303 posted on 08/30/2017 8:15:57 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

To: Snickering Hound

Have not been in a Best Buy...for many,many years.

Surprised they are still in biz....

Whatever supervisor ok'd this...ought to be fired...and the dummies under him too.

304 posted on 08/30/2017 8:20:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)

To: jean michael

Don’t bet on it...............

305 posted on 08/30/2017 8:20:58 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)

But not business sense...for a nationally known company.

306 posted on 08/30/2017 8:25:03 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)

To: Snickering Hound

By definition, “price gouging” is raising prices during a disaster or some other event.

Best Buy did NOT price-gouge. They simply charged the normal price for the bottled water. They never sell the bottles by the case, and they normally don’t give volume discounts.

Mark

307 posted on 08/30/2017 9:21:00 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

To: pepsi_junkie

well if they offered them at regular price

That WAS their "normal" price. That case price was simply the single bottle price times the number of bottles.

Nobody buys food or drinks at Best Buy, it's ridiculously overpriced.

Mark

308 posted on 08/30/2017 9:23:14 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

To: Jim from C-Town

309 posted on 08/31/2017 4:37:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

It was selling it by the case that made it gouging.

310 posted on 08/31/2017 4:39:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

To: Jim from C-Town

You are assuming too many things. How do you know there were individual bottles in the fridge? You don’t. Why is BB apologizing? And don’t give me some ridiculous excuse for their apology, either.

311 posted on 08/31/2017 4:45:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

To: miss marmelstein

You go away. You are disparaging a company that employs tens of thousands of people because YOU think they are price gouging when they are not.

Bottles of water sell for up to $4 every day all over the country. Best Buys sells them every day for $1.79 and Smart Water for $2.49 every day.

You simply have been caught virtue signaling your contempt for free enterprise and your latent socialism has been exposed. Your constant harping about how Bad and Mean Best Buys is makes you look like a fool and that is why you are so angry.

312 posted on 08/31/2017 5:59:43 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

To: Jim from C-Town

You are a loudmouth who pushes your opinion down other people’s throats so you are in no position to criticize me.

Now. You keep calling this “fake news.” If it is fake news, you need to provide a link that shows there were individual water bottles in the fridge section as well as those cases selling for over 40 bucks which may or may not have been the going price prior to the hurricane. Because, right now, you are making things up out of whole cloth.

Believe me, if this is fake news I’ll be the first to acknowledge. We also don’t know whether BB is a “pussy” as you so elegantly call them. They may just be doing the right thing. Who knows.

313 posted on 08/31/2017 6:17:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

To: miss marmelstein

I need to do no such thing.

It is obvious what is going on anyone who has ever ventured out of their home and gone to a retail establishment can deduce the facts. You are too arrogant and head strong to admit that you are wrong.

You are attacking me, I simply pointed out that they sell the water individually every day at that price.

Saying they price gauging is a lie. Lying about others in the news is Fake News!

314 posted on 08/31/2017 7:24:18 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

To: Jim from C-Town

You couldn’t point out something “simple” if your life depended on it. You are a maniac for italics which, by the way, make your posts unreadable.

You and I have no idea whether at the time the photo was taken if they were selling individual bottles; the bottles may have been sold out or perhaps they hid them. In any case, the company apologized and somebody is probably going to lose their job. Lesson? Behave honorably during an emergency. God’ll like it.

315 posted on 08/31/2017 7:30:19 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

To: miss marmelstein

Really, Unreadable? You read it. Or did you? .................................................................................................................... If you had you would have been educated. Since you continue to belly ache it is all but certain that you are too stupid to understand a very simple situation. That is discouraging. .................................................................................................................... It is the same price they charge every day. If someone losses their job it should be the PR Representative who stupidly apologized, but management generally scapegoats low level employees who have the least culpability in the matter. It is a standard in executive suites everywhere. .................................................................................................................... Go to a Best Buy, Home Depot or any other NON food related retailer and see what a bottle of water costs. It is normally $1-$3. They sell them every day as a convenient impulse purchase that gives their customers and employees the chance to get a convenient refreshing drink and also helps their bottom line. Making cases available was actually quite helpful for those people who wanted more than one. .................................................................................................................... Most likely the employees where sick of restocking the cooler and simply made the price available as a case purchase. They would simply ring up 12 @ $1.79 to get to the case price made up a sign and took their available stock out of the back room and put it on the sales floor. Once again AS A CONVENIENCE to the customers who may want to purchase more than one. It is almost certain that when they sold them they would have to ring them up as 12@ $1.79 as they probably do not have a way to sell them by the case in the first place. .................................................................................................................... There is certainly nothing dishonorable about that! .................................................................................................................... Stop virtue signaling. Stop castigating an entire corporation and stop babbling about things you simply know nothing about! It makes you look stupid, ignorant and arrogant.BOLD to help make the point. .................................................................................................................... BTW: Let's leave God out of it.

316 posted on 08/31/2017 7:58:29 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

To: Jim from C-Town

Why can’t you type like a normal person? You’re another one who needs a time out.

317 posted on 08/31/2017 8:02:40 AM PDT by miss marmelstein

To: Jim from C-Town

I can’t read that crap.
How about you learn to make writing like modern man make?

318 posted on 08/31/2017 11:14:02 AM PDT by humblegunner

To: humblegunner

319 posted on 08/31/2017 5:53:24 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

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