Price Matching Criticized From Wal-Mart to Toys ‘R’ Us: Retail

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This Easter, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aired a television commercial promoting its Ad Match Guarantee. In it, an exuberant clerk touted the policy’s benefits to a shopper named “Janette” from Lithonia, Georgia.

“That price?” he said, pointing to an advertising circular the woman had brought in. “Wal-Mart will match it right at the register. Yeah, and you don’t even need your ad!”