Companies that still think they're two entities

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Example: 1. B&M Wal-Mart vs. Online www.walmart.com
2. B&M Fry's Electronics vs. Online www.outpost.com
3. B&M KB Toys vs. Online www.kbtoys.com

these businesses continue to remind me that we're still in the early stages of ecommerce.

example: you walk into one of their B&M stores to purchase an item, in this case a video game, but there's a price difference. as an informed consumer, you ask the sales assistant to price match their own price, and in turn they give you some mumbo-jumbo store policy on why they can not.

Results:
1. okay, no problem, you walk out and buy it somewhere else. (or)
2. you rather not hassle and just pay the higher price.

I prefer 1. Consumers have the purchasing power. Use it to vote.
 
Gamestop B&M vs online

Remember around january I think when ubisoft had that deal where u buy pop and get sc free. I emailed them and asked when is the deal gonna be available B&M. They replied back saying they don't know because something about the B&M is a different company. I mean they act if like their B&M is one of their rival competitors or something.
 
[quote name='craven_fiend']How are EB and www.ebgames.com at pricematching? I have never tried and have always wonder?[/quote]

I've gotten them to do it, but they played dumb and spent about 10 minutes fumbling around so I could save a whopping $5.
 
In the case of Fry's and Outpost it is a bit more understandable since Outpost was an existing online retailer that Fry's purchased rather than build their online service from scratch. At the moment this is turning into a big hassle because they've screwed up a rebate without which I'd never have bought the particular item.
 
Outpost is known for being unreliable with rebates. It's wise not to do it unless you have to, in which case you should save all traces of everything required.
 
Well, lets not forget that selling online is 45% cheaper to do than owning a B&M Wal-mart. Trust me on this, you will not win....you'll only make it where Wal-mart (or whoever) stop selling cheaper prices online. Period. Online gives those stores the ability to easily fade out products. Bitch enough, and that cheaper price WILL go away.

My best friend helped design the business model that these stores use for ecommerce.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']Well, lets not forget that selling online is 45% cheaper to do than owning a B&M Wal-mart. Trust me on this, you will not win....you'll only make it where Wal-mart (or whoever) stop selling cheaper prices online. Period. Online gives those stores the ability to easily fade out products. Bitch enough, and that cheaper price WILL go away.

My best friend helped design the business model that these stores use for ecommerce.[/quote]

such strong and harsh words...too bad it's just a bluff and full of crap. most of us already understand click-vs-brick, so no need to cover that. most of us already understand overhead and inventory, so no need to go over that.

100% of my video game hardware and software purchases are B&M. B&M's actually seem to offer sweeter deals, just have to search, and check CAG. And most of us already know, shipping can kill any online deal. Web-surfers know click-only retailers are not passing the savings on to us, Mookyjooky; so stop trying to put the show on. Retailers are in business for themselves.....(invisible hand...yadda, yadda, yadda..).

The product is the same everywhere, and widely available, therefore the $10 B industry is competing on price. Go ahead, Mookyjooky, make the online deals go away....I'd like to see that, as if it'll ever happen. Your statement contradicts itself. And as for your friend that designed the 'business model' for ecommerce? *cough**cough*BS*cough* You two probably contributed to the dot.com bubble burst.
 
Actually as i understood it Amazon runs the online buisness for TRU and they;re currently in a bitter dispute and on the verge of parting ways.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']B&M Target vs Online[/quote]

Target online accepts B&M giftcards, so that's a step above many others.
 
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