Best Buy Price Gouging Harvey Victims

[kennysux]

Idiots at Best Buy printed out water case prices based on single item SKU. This is in areas effected by Hurricane Harvey. This is a prime example of why AI is going to take over retail. No real reason to have a human in the store, if they can't exercise any common sense.

"Apology" by Best Buy. They threw their workers under the bus.

 

[Son of Jamin]

When it rains, it pours...

 

[ookii]

Why would you buy water at an electronic store?

 

[Undying Poster]

Why would you buy water at an electronic store?

Because the grocery stores ran out? I'm assuming you haven't dealt with hurricanes before.

Anyways it's good that Best Buy was named and shamed.

 

[Falsedawn]

Why would you buy water at an electronic store?

Because when shit gets wild, you get the essentials from wherever you can find them.

People were hitting up U-Haul locations around here for gas because everyone was out. It's not out of the ordinary.

 

[panamaican]

Why would you buy water at an electronic store?

Suicidal tendencies...

...because electronics and water is often portrayed as leading to electrocution. Hence if someone intentionally went to a place filled with electronics and availed themselves of water it must be because they were hoping to spill some on a plugged in electronic gadget and electrocute themselves.

I hope no one takes my post seriously.

 

[IDL]

Hmm, yeah that is about the price of one bottle if you buy it single, times the number of bottles in a case

Plausible, but obviously more costly than buying it by the caseload under normal circumstances.

 

[kennysux]

Hmm, yeah that is about the price of one bottle if you buy it single, times the number of bottles in a case

Plausible, but obviously more costly than buying it by the caseload under normal circumstances.

The issue is that no body in the store has any common sense to realize that:
1) that is a mistake
2) that is price gouging

So this means:
1) Best Buy workers at that location are worse than mindless robots.
2) No one working at that Best Buy store is shocked that the company will price gouge their customers openly.

 

[IDL]

The issue is that no body in the store has any common sense to realize that:
1) that is a mistake
2) that is price gouging

So this means:
1) Best Buy workers at that location are worse than mindless robots.
2) No one working at that Best Buy store is shocked that the company will price gouge their customers openly.

It was probably just some low wage store worker that had been tasked to come up with a price and print it off.

It's possible that it was deliberate profit driven price gouging by management to try to get their numbers up, but it's hard to know. Not sure who exactly would gain financially by the extra high pricing. I'm under the impression that it isn't like a small store where the owner could pocket the extra cash, but I'm not really sure how it works in a large retail chain like Best Buy.

 

[themainman]

Nathan Fielder exposed there shady practices already
The big businesses like Best Buy and Enron just don't care about the little guy

 

[Witchhunt]

Probably revenge for the looting they've experienced over the years.

 

[kennysux]

It was probably just some low wage store worker that had been tasked to come up with a price and print it off.

It's possible that it was deliberate profit driven price gouging by management to try to get their numbers up, but it's hard to know. Not sure who exactly would gain financially by the extra high pricing. I'm under the impression that it isn't like a small store where the owner could pocket the extra cash, but I'm not really sure how it works in a large retail chain like Best Buy.

Of course it wasn't deliberate. That would be crazy.

It is about the stores culture and quality of employees.

 

[TheStruggle]

 

[WorldofWarcraft]

This is why you always gotta have food, water, first aid, guns, ammunition on hand. And maybe a back up generator

 

[kennysux]

This is why you always gotta have food, water, first aid, guns, ammunition on hand. And maybe a back up generator

All you need is guns and ammunition.

You can steal the rest.

 

[Toastytoy]

I would raise up the price of water for sure during an emergency. Is this considered illegal or bad practice? Basic supply and demand.

 

[jefferz]

If they were $1.80 each for the Dasani and $2.50 each for the Smart water in the cooler, would everybody on the internet lose their damn minds?

 

[kennysux]

I would raise up the price of water for sure during an emergency. Is this considered illegal or bad practice? Basic supply and demand.

It is illegal.

Texas has price gouging laws to prevent this.

But I don't think it was intentional on Best Buy's part.

 

[Higus]

It was probably just some low wage store worker that had been tasked to come up with a price and print it off.

It's possible that it was deliberate profit driven price gouging by management to try to get their numbers up, but it's hard to know. Not sure who exactly would gain financially by the extra high pricing. I'm under the impression that it isn't like a small store where the owner could pocket the extra cash, but I'm not really sure how it works in a large retail chain like Best Buy.

Hanlon's razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

 

[TheTimeIsNotNow]

Probably revenge for the looting they've experienced over the years.