Best Buy sells cases of water for $42.96 in Houston....

[TechnoWeenie]

They had no SKU/case price of the water, so they took the retail price and x24, or whatever the case size was..

$42.96/24= $1.79

Sounds about right for smartwater... I was in 7-11 yesterday and they had 2 for $3.50

[Guns4Liberty]

The article says they don't normally sell cases of water. So why now? Are we to believe the timing of that decision was purely coincidental with the hurricane? And even if they just multiplied the single bottle price by the case quantity, what idiot looked at that number and thought, "Yeah, that sounds right for a case of water"...? It may very well have been just a mistake, but I'm not convinced. It looks to me like someone was hoping to take advantage of people in an emergency.

[RocketScott]

Have any of you guys actually been in a Best Buy?

If you had you'd realize that the high school kids and minimum wage workers there aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

I would also bet that there isn't a sku for a case of water in the system, since they don't normally sell cases of water.

I'm just surprised they could count to 24 to ring it up. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, they probably had to scan an individual bottle 24 times.

[NWRed]

The article says they don't normally sell cases of water. So why now? Are we to believe the timing of that decision was purely coincidental with the hurricane? And even if they just multiplied the single bottle price by the case quantity, what idiot looked at that number and thought, "Yeah, that sounds right for a case of water"...? It may very well have been just a mistake, but I'm not convinced. It looks to me like someone was hoping to take advantage of people in an emergency.

Do you regularly buy cases of water at BestBuy?
Does anyone normally buy cases of water at BestBuy?

If their current pricing scheme is for $1.74 for singles out of the chiller by the checkout, along with $2 16oz. Cokes and some $4 12oz. energy drinks, why would they change that because some unprepared people showed up and were willing to buy $42 24packs of bottled water? They were selling the cases their stock comes in , rather than opening the packaging and sticking it in the chiller so customers could buy it by the case rather then filling up a shopping cart with singles. It wasn't like they special ordered cases of bottled water with the intention of selling cases of water at an electronics store during the middle of a flood.

"yall want to add a case of water with your geek squad hard drive upgrade?"

[Old Growth]

Who the fuck is dumb enough to buy water at a VCR store?

[L_O_G]

Who the fuck is dumb enough to buy water at a VCR store?

Someone who is desperate for water maybe

[Guntrader]

Home Depot had small bags of Cheez-It's by the checkout counter for $1.69.
I get them at Costco on sale for 21 cents.