Target app drops sale prices from app when you enter store

I knew it!  I recently wanted to buy something, looked online for it and saw a good sale price, went into the store and the listed price was different. I even had customer service check it out and they didnt find my sale price anywhere. I knew something had to be up if my, my husband, and son all saw the sale price and when we got into the store they acted like we were making it up.  This makes me feel so much better, i cant wait to tell my husband and son that we were not going crazy!

Move over and make room on your bench.  I DETEST it!  I actually have been in Target a half dozen times at least since they redid it and not once have I bothered or wanted to look at clothing.  It’s stupid and I am NOT a fan.  The sad thing is that almost all of my wardrobe is from target and at some point i’m Going to have to buy new clothes.  Le sigh.

I've never been a target fan and don’t really get the hype. Lots of overpriced junk, really. I end up going a couple times a year and am always underwhelmed or disappointed. I was there this weekend looking for sheets and a Fitbit. All fit bits sold out, the sheets were cheap and over priced so I left with nothing. And with this shady news? Even more of a reason to not go.

Yes Walmart’s online prices have always differed from in store prices sometimes lhifher mostly lower. I’ve bought stuff online with free in store pick up to get around it.
But you know it makes less sense that online/I store pickup is less as it is that it’s less work for them if I go in the store find my own item & bring it to the cashier than if I order it online and some employee has to go out on the floor to find it then set it aside. Then come to the pick up desk find out what I want, go find it & then do a transaction that might as well be me paying for it. It’s like twice as much work.

Chapters/Indigo in Canada have different prices online than they do in the store.

And they will not honor online prices in the store, period.

Kind of off topic, but not really - I see a bunch of folks saying “cartwheel app”. The cartwheel app hasn’t worked for at least six months for me. They merged the two together in the regular target app and while it references cartwheel offers on the home page, it is 100% better than the cartwheel app was.

I tried this today with my phone and while having location turned on, I can still see sale items in the regular app. Am I doing something different or is it because I’m using the regular app and not the cartwheel one anymore?

I first noticed that with my dog's food. It was significantly marked down on line and I had some good coupons. As you can't use coupons online I didn't pre-order but just went to store. Not on sale in store and app didn't show sale price.

Signed out of app and went to reg target.com site. Sale price showed. Took screenshot and showed at register. They honor as makes no sense not to as I could just order online while standing there and get the price.

Now I tend to screenshot a lot.

Also works in reverse. Sometimes price lower in store than online with store pick up. Recently ordered a quanity of bottled water I enjoy (Hint-watermelon flavored) that included $10 gift card with 25 purchase of beverages.

I had other stuff to get there and only pre-ordered to avoid having to ask someone to get more out of back. They tend to only have few out a a time.

Anyway ran to get other stuff first and noticed in store they were 99cents each vs 1.49. So I grabbed few more to make it qualify for gift card at sale price and then went to customer service desk and asked to cancel my order and just let me pay with other stuff at check out.

When explained why there was no hesitation and actually an 'I don't blame you.'

Drives me a bit nuts the games they play. Thankfully my target isn't major metropolitan so customer service is usually good and quick.