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Originally Posted by kane
They might be. There is no way of knowing that this didn't go up yesterday either and I'm sure they are open on Friday.
Maybe I am overreacting, but I am about 99% sure if you went into Best Buy on Monday they didn't have cases of water for sale. But then when they start selling out everywhere and the demand is through the roof suddenly they put them out there for a price that is likely 5 or 6 times what a grocery store sells it for. To me that is suspicious and pretty lame.
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Sorry, by the time I typed this Baddog had already explained it clearly.
Doesn't each individual bottle of water have a barcode on it which indicates the price you pay when you pull one bottle out of the cooler and hand it to the checkout to purchase. That predetermined price is in their system.
So lets say all the grocery and connivence stores are sold out of water but Best Buy has a pallet of water bottles stacked in the back with barcodes on them and employees bring them out front to the cooler when stock is needed.
I walk into Best Buy and tell the guy I'll buy all the water you got and he brings me out a case ( 24 Bottles ) that have been pre priced at $2 per to go in the cooler. I pay $48 total.
He knows someone else will need a case so he brings another one out and puts a sign on it $48 which is what you would pay if you bought each bottle individually out of the cooler.
Price gouging sucks and they don't let them get away with it here in Florida but I don't see how Best Buy is price gouging in this instance. They just aren't giving a great deal and your paying the premium price that's been predetermined for out of the cooler water bottles.