Walmart Price Matching Policy
Many stores will Price Match the Weekly Store Advertisements you get in the Newspaper– including Wal-Mart . This can really help us save even more, especially when you can stack coupons on top of the price matching deal!
However, there may be a few tricky rules you are not aware of:
1- If the weekly ad says “While Supplies Last”, that means the store does not have to honor the price match if the advertisting store is out-of-stock.
For example: RC Willey had New Moon listed in their ad for $8.95. In extremely small print it said “While Supplies Last”. So, you wouldn’t have been able to price match this deal once RC Willey ran out. So, remember that the next time you see a great deal in an ad.**And the store managers will call and check to see if the other store is still in stock, so keep that in mind.
2- If the weekly ad says “No Rainchecks”, that means that once they are out-of-stock, you cannot request a Raincheck to get it later at the same price. Most of the time, Rainchecks are a great way to still get the deal at the advertised price a week later and still use your coupons. But, if it has the limitations printed next to the item, you are out of luck. That is one of the deals you will want to get there first thing for, so you don’t miss out. You may find that stores will not honor the price matching once the advertisting store is out of stock too!
To help you out when price matching at Wal-Mart, print out and keep their Price Matching Policy with you.
Sometimes managers will tell you that they don’t price match with a certain store. As long as the competing store is within their local trade territory, they DO need to price match. Ask them what their Local Trade Territory is, if a manager tries to tell you they don’t price match. That should help you out. From what I have been told, it is usually around 30 miles. And if you still have problems, contact Wal-Mart corporate.
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Learned something new, WalMart has changed most of their produce prices to “each” instead of price per pound in my area.. They also will not match competitor prices on these items that they have priced at “each” instead of per pound unless the competitor also has the item listed as each… I was not paying attention the first time and 3 lbs of oranges would have cost me almost $6 whereas driving less than a 1/2 mile down the road they were 4lbs for a $1.00.. Yes, I did have the clerk take them off and did drive down the road… Just of my price match learning experience that I thought would be helpful to share…
i live in evanston,wy and i’v been told that walmart will Price Match up to 100 miles i just got back into coupons and all we have is walmart and smiths so this is going to really help
They also will not match Target’s prices. Case in point. Walmart sells “Lost: Season 6″ for $44.96. Target currently has it for $19.99(unadvertised special with rest of the series for $19.99. The CSM wouldn’t override it because it would mean that Wally World would be losing about $25 off the items regular price!! What is even stranger is that they price matched “Mad Men: Season 4 ” on DVD for $19.99 at Target without the ad!! Needless to say I’m furious at them for not price match both items from the same store!! They claim they still need to see the competitors ad!! What’s even more ironic is this item is for sale this week in Target’s ad!!
How do they expect customers to price match when a lot of people don’t get the paper and get our ads via our cell phones? Or worse we can price check items in the store as we shop!! I think that Walmart has opened up a huge can of worms with this new price match gimmick or bait and switch thing going on!! Do they think that consumers as stupid or something??
Sorry this is long, I needed to vent about this!! This incident I wrote about happened on April 15,2011
if target is in walmarts local trade territory will they honor targets coupons from the target website?
I try to buy purex liquid laundry soap at Walmart that was on sale at Walgreen’s for 2.99. But they would not sell it to me because Walgreen’s size was 33oz. and Walmart was 32oz. what a pain. I made the clerk take the 10 bottles off and I went to Walgreen. I haven’t try to do a price match again.
went to Walmart to price match a sale ad and I was told that I had to buy $30.00 or more worth of groceries before they will price match ad!!!
Walmart sure does know how to change their rules every time I go in it seems.
I do not believe they should say they will price match when they refuse to do it!
I found a step 2 easel on walmart.com for $25, I was going to purchase it
From there but since I had to go in I figured i
Would buy it at the store. Well walmart had it for $45
I even had the walmart website on my phone to show the clerk
And they wouldn’t honor it!!! It’s their website!!! I asked for a manager
And she said it would be fine since its their website.
I think they need to train all the cashiers properly!
I have used the price match at Wal-Mart with a buy one get one free and when they went to ring it up they said they could not ring the item up as free so they charged me a penny less for the first item and charged me a penny for the second item. The next time I tried to use the same type of price match the cashier said they could not do that and so I told him what they had done the first time and he called a CSM to double check it and they honored it..so be sure to tell them to do it that way if they say they can’t
Today i went in walmart to get my weekly groceries and once again it came time for the comps and every comp the cashier had to run back to check sales ads. I go threw the computer ads for my area write them all down under the stores name,ounces, price and im still told they can not honor them. Im so tired of all the extra work i have to do and still be told i can not get them for that price. Iwas told if the sales ad doesnt have a price they can not do it for their price. Im over walmart i will not shop there anymore , i left all my groceries on the belt and walked out . The kicker is i live in a small town and thats the only thing around ,but im willing to drive the 30 miles to next store before i give walmart another dime . If everyone would complain more often maybe they would get the hint and make everything easier on themselfs and their so called valued customers. Next step will be lawsuits for false advertising!!!!!
Went to my Walmart yesterday and had all my ads with me and come to find out now if it says buy 10 at the top of the page you have to buy the 10 to get the cheaper price. But every other time I can buy one or two at the discounted price. So that is the newest thing that has changed.
I think I’m the Walmart ad match master. I called ahead and spoke to the manager to get our local Walmart rules. I took down his name and number and if the cashier questioned my ad match I asked that Mr Manager was call to the check out isle. The cashiers stopped questioning me. For you folks that comp the 10 for 10….you are not required to buy 10 of the same item…just groups of 10 of any item advertised…..I make my list by store category and then make a list by department. I can go through each department and get everything I need without roaming everywhere. I keep the ad match policy in my purse just in case I have a cashier that resists my ad. I have taught many friends to ad match. I’m not out to cheat anyone but am going to take full advantage of the savings.
thank you they change the rules all the time
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