Originally Posted by
bhlombardy
I was in Best Buy yesterday and SCOP'd some 4k movies.
Along the main thoroughfare throughout the store were a few cardboard BOXING DAY displays of movies (DVD/Blu-Ray/4k alike).
Several popular 4k titles were STICKERED with $18.99 price tags. (not signage, not shelf tags, but actually stickered on the movies themselves.) -- there were no dates listed.
I picked up "The Meg" from the display (tagged at $18.99) and proceeded to the actual movie section of the store. Here I saw The Meg (identical item, same UPC) shelf-tagged for $29.99 -- but with no sticker attached. I ALMOST swapped them so I didnt have to deal with picking the sticker off the cardboard slip cover when I got home. But then looked up the price online to realize that the current price was indeed $29.99. Going to the checkout with the $18.99 price tag attached would give me solid SCOP argument.
I then proceeded to pick up and price-check the other 4k titles from the displays that were also stickered at $18.99 -- Titles like:
Ready Player One ... Tomb Raider ... The Matrix (to name a few) -- almost all of the titles I checked are now back to their regular price. (which ranged from $30-$40) but still stickered at $18.99
I took my haul to the counter and got all of them SCOP'd down to $8.99 each*
(*SCOP rule is you get the item free up to $10. If it's more, then you get $10 off the lowest ticketed price).
So I walked out of there with over $200 worth of movies (after tax) and paying only $10ea (after tax)
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As a reminder: The other SCOP rule to be aware of is that you only get the price correction on the FIRST of a specific item. The other items have to be different. -- I mention this because some clerks may want to envoke this first-item only policy (not in this case, but I have had others cite it in the past when I was SCOP'ing 4 different kinds of mustard). Even though they are all movies, by buying different titles they all are different items. As long as the UPC is different, then it IS a different item.
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(your local store's titles and availability may vary)