Target's New Low Price Promise

I discovered this past year that Walmart will price match identical products with any local retailer's print ad. While this definitely opens up possibilities for great savings, it has a drawback of having to make a special trip to Walmart to capitalize. 

A regular month's shopping for me includes grocery shopping twice a month at a local store (most often Safeway but I am considering a switch to Albertson's), one Costco run, and one Target tour. Walmart is completely out of the way and not on my list of normal activities. Nor is it going to save much money spending the extra in time at the registers and gas to get there. =/ 

So great concept, just not attainable by me. 

Thanks to this article by GeekMom at Wired.com, I am especially excited to discover that Target has decided to go the way of price matching with major competitors! While not exactly the same as Walmart's policy (item must be in stock online and not on clearance), most particulars of Target's new Price Match Guarantee are the same. One notable exception being that Walmart has to be print ads and Target is willing to accept online prices from selected sources! Meaning you can price match with Amazon.com, just not the smaller third party sellers!

I plan on taking extreme advantage of this new policy the next time I head into Target! You can find the particulars for Target's new Low Price Policy here.