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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

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.

no not selling things for a little more but for an insane amount more. here's what happened to me and you weigh in. i read that tru had the tmnt legos in and so i went to get some for my son. checked the lego site and saw the prices before hand since i know that tru over prices things. saw the two smaller sets and thought why not. mikey/krang set was sku priced at $14.99 (lego site $12.99) and the shredder set sku at $27.99 (lego site $24.99). now mind you i went on sunday when they were released at tru. when i went to ring out the mikey set was now $17.99 and the shredder set was $34.99! this is not the only thing they did this to. mp prime was $99.99 and is now $129.99. tmnt sewer set was $109.99 and is now $139.99. tru also has this crazy idea that when they put legos on sale they have to raise the price when they do...