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Originally Posted by salsa4datass

these were released on sunday and tru has already decided to boost the price even hirer than normal. i wonder if there is some type of law for price gauging at a store?

TRU does not sell the volume or the variety of product that Walmart does in order to make the prices lower. They have to have a higher price to turn a profit.
Beyond that, Walmart intentionally pushes their prices too low, in order to undercut Target, TRU, and others.
So it's not really so much that TRU is "price gouging" as you say, it's that Walmart is price fixing, simularly to what china does to undercut competition. (There was a big thing within the last few years of china flooding the US market in I think Ohio, with extremely cheap tires that the US companies could not compete with, and that ended up becoming a near international incident that the president had to step in.)

So the reality is, Walmart's undercut prices are technically more morally bankrupt than TRU selling them around MSRP.