Target, Walmart, and Amazon in Dvd Price Wars
11-06-09 | 09:37 AM
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Target, Walmart, and Amazon in Dvd Price Wars
NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
The move led rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Target Corp. to reduce the prices of some online preorder DVDs, which pushed Wal-Mart to take a few more cents off its offerings.
The world's biggest retailer said late Thursday that it would lower the online prices of new DVDs such as "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" and "Star Trek" to $10.
But when Amazon reduced some of its DVD prices to $9.99, Wal-Mart shot back by lowering its DVDs to $9.98 as of Friday morning.
The retailer, which generated more than $400 billion in sales last year, was embroiled in a book price war with Target and Amazon.com last month that saw the companies lower the online preorder prices on titles such as "Under the Dome" by Stephen King and "Ford County" by John Grisham. Prices dropped as low as $8.98.
As books in the price war have come to market, prices have gone up, though the sellers are still discounting them heavily.
Wal-Mart has been cutting costs and using those savings to lower prices for its shoppers, thereby pumping up its sales. The retailer knows that while the economy has been improving, consumers are still worried about the high unemployment rate heading into the holidays and will likely want to duplicate some of the bargains they experienced last year.
Wal-Mart's DVD price cut follows its announcement late last month that it would reduce prices weekly on top-selling items from bananas to board games and hold those cuts through the holiday season.
Looks like the major retailers have finally taken notice of Amazon's agressive price matching. I wonder what Best Buy will do. Amazon has got to be totally pissing off these retailers who want big sales this holiday.
11-06-09 | 09:59 AM
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Best Buy better d osomething because, quite frankly, they suck with pricing. Aside from the occasional great deals, they rarely have prices in line with Amazon.
11-06-09 | 10:25 AM
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I hope we have an insane Blu-ray price war in the near future.
11-06-09 | 10:28 AM
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I agree. I only shop at Best Buy when they have a sale ($4.99/ movie or the 2 disc SE's buy one get one free). Other than those times, their prices are ridiculously high.
11-06-09 | 10:39 AM
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The retailer knows that while the economy has been improving, consumers are still worried about the high unemployment rate
11-07-09 | 06:11 AM
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becoming a regular at that place is like winning a lottery in this economy, hell before our economy went in the crapper it was hard.
11-07-09 | 03:31 PM
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good luck to people trying to become a regular.. i worked there for 5 years and never got moved up from casual and got layed off do to cuts
becoming a regular at that place is like winning a lottery in this economy, hell before our economy went in the crapper it was hard.
becoming a regular at that place is like winning a lottery in this economy, hell before our economy went in the crapper it was hard.
11-07-09 | 08:18 PM
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Then add sales tax to your Best Buy purchase then its not worth the bother to go there. Haven't been there in almost 2 yrs.
11-08-09 | 10:16 AM
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I'd consider picking up Jennifer's Body if I could get it for $9.99.
11-08-09 | 02:13 PM
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I wish Amazon would catch up with Walmart's current TV on DVD prices: Shield ($20/season), Forever Knight ($15/season), X-Files ($14/season), etc. I saw the tags out Wednesday night, but I went back Saturday and the goddamn shelves still haven't been fully stocked. There were like 2 copies of Shield season 1 and none of the rest.
11-09-09 | 08:46 AM
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Most of that is stuff I have zero interest in. I'd much rather see more catalog titles start to dip below the $10 mark so I can start upgrading select DVDs. The only two new releases I'm interested in are Inglorious Basterds and Star Trek.
I'd consider picking up Jennifer's Body if I could get it for $9.99.
I'd consider picking up Jennifer's Body if I could get it for $9.99.
11-09-09 | 01:19 PM
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And this is why the government will eventually have to enact some kind of online sales tax (or start enforcing existing laws). It's just not fair to B&Ms at this point (not that I don't enjoy not being charged sales tax from amazon directly).
11-10-09 | 12:27 PM
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I wish Amazon would catch up with Walmart's current TV on DVD prices: Shield ($20/season), Forever Knight ($15/season), X-Files ($14/season), etc. I saw the tags out Wednesday night, but I went back Saturday and the goddamn shelves still haven't been fully stocked. There were like 2 copies of Shield season 1 and none of the rest.
As for $10 for Star Trek - it's a good price, but still more than the $1 I'll be spending at RedBox. OK, $2 if I want to watch it again in a few months.
