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Customer Punches Grocery Store Manager Over Price Of Crab Cakes
Think Carefully Before Buying Diapers At Target
AT&T Hints That It Might Introduce Usage-Based Pricing For Smartphone Customers
(Legs: Ed Yourdon)
CVS Challenges You To Explain Their Reverse Sale
Having A Picture Scanned At OfficeMax Is Like Being On A Game Show
(Photo: Mark Coggins)
Generic Winn-Dixie Snack Bags Must Be Awesome
Reader BrotherFlounder is wondering what's so special about these generic Winn-Dixie snack bags that makes them more expensive than similar brand name ones. More »
Target Pays New Jersey $375K To Settle Fraud Charges
Target has agreed to pay New Jersey $375,000 to settle charges that it sold baby formula and non-prescription drugs that had expired, and that it charged higher prices on some products than what was displayed on the shelves. More »
DVD Price War: Harry Potter, Star Trek For $10
Walmart announced yesterday that it will be slashing prices to below wholesale on 10 of the most popular DVDs that will be released soon, says the LA Times. Target announced that it will be matching Walmart. Amazon has not yet responded. More »
Avoid The Diabolical Target Lysol Disinfectant Wipe Trap
Target loves to keep you on your toes. Which is the better deal? 110 wipes for $4.79 or 80 wipes for $4.79? More »
This Grocery Store Bakery Price War Seems To Be Heating Up
We don't quite know what to say about this Mid-Atlantic regional grocery store bakery price war. It is intense, baby. More »
Be Sure To Miss This Great Deal At Target
We'd like to alert you to an exciting sale on iTunes gift cards at Target this week. All cards are $30, regardless of whether their face value is $15 or $25. (Thanks, Nick!) More »
TiVO: Save $100 By Saving $50!
Reader Tim is canceling TiVO and going with the Comcast DVR and was presented with a retention deal that he was able to resist. Why? Because $299.99 - $100 doesn't equal $249.99. More »
Best Buy Employees See Nothing Wrong With Price Tag Off By $9,880
Great Deal At CVS
Reader Evan spotted this smoking deal at a Los Angeles CVS. He didn't specify what exactly a "CVS HLTH GRO THPST" is, but at that spectacular discount, who could pass one up? I'll tell you who — those wise consumers who hold fast until the price drops even further, to $3.19. More »
Best Buy Now Prices TVs Up To $200 Cheaper Online
Target's Sale Fail
For awhile now (since at least 2007) we've been posting pictures of mindboggling Target price tags. We're starting to wonder if we're actually encouraging them. We got two of these today. More »
Tires Prices Increasing Soon, At Least For Cooper
Are you planning on buying tires soon? According to this report from TireBusiness.com, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is planning on raising its prices for passenger and light truck tires by "up to 12 percent," in response to an increase on tarrifs from China. They wouldn't provide a hard date for the price increase, but said "soon." More »
Bottled Water Price War Is Heating Up
What do you stop buying when you are broke? Bottled water. After a decade of rising consumption, bottled water sales are starting to trickle off — and companies are responding by dropping their prices. More »
Target Advertises Cheap In-Store Hard Drive Online, 'Varies' Price At Stores
Silly Jeremy, thinking he can use an online Target ad for an in-store only price to gauge the actual price of an item at his neighborhood Target. More »
Target Still Doing Business In A Reality Vortex
Loyal Consumerist readers may have noticed that we haven't made any recent posts in our widely acclaimed series of posts about how discount retailer Target is insane. Has Target sought help and found its way back to reality? No. We were just saving up material. More »
