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[Bruticus82]

Well, the reason why price adjustment policies exist to begin with is that persons who bought product X at $Y were very upset when a sale began the next day, or the next week even, and they couldn't take advantage of it. What would happen of course is that individuals would simply return and repurchase their merchandise, especially where such merchandise was not scarce (like shoes, clothes, vacuum cleaners, toasters, etc.).

So stores, rather that processing all those returns and repurchases, introduced price adjustment periods, where, if the product goes on sale shortly after you purchased it, they will do a price adjustment rather than a full refund/repurchase.

It's not like price adjustment policies, or even refund policies are mandated by government. It's the store's choice to introduce them.

Yes, that means people can, and do, show up on Thursday evening, buy products, and then get a price adjustment on Friday.

Again, I should note that companies like TRU process every return and price adjustment into a database that keeps track of each individual, and they have the right to ban individuals from returns/exchanges/price adjustments where they think the individual is abusing their system.

The real question is what constitutes abuse in their books. I think they're more worried about people buying products on clearance at Wal-mart and returning them to TRU for store credit than they are about people getting price adjustments.