Prices

Lowe's handles lower prices after a purchase through its Lowest Price Guarantee, validated by chat or phone; it posts no fixed price drop window.

Recent guides say Macy's refunds the difference if its own price drops within 10 days of your order, with exclusions for clearance and marketplace items.

Mattress Firm pays the difference when a lower advertised price for the same or a comparable mattress set turns up within 120 days of purchase.

Menards' help pages describe no competitor price match; they offer sale price adjustments within 14 days, paid as a Merchandise Credit Check.

Newegg matches only its own lower price on the same item within 7 days of purchase, paid as a Customer Care card, and does not match Amazon or other stores.

Reports from 2026 say Nordstrom adjusts a price that drops within 14 days and matches some competitors; sale events and Nordstrom Rack are excluded.

Office Depot and OfficeMax match a lower price on an identical, in-stock item at a qualifying retailer at checkout or up to 14 days after you buy.

Shopping guides report a one-time Old Navy price adjustment within 14 days of purchase; Old Navy's own page could not be read, so confirm first.

PetSmart matches a lower price on an identical, in-stock item from direct-seller pet, grocery, pharmacy and big-box stores, in store or on their own sites.

Best Buy, Target, Staples, Office Depot and Guitar Center will refund the difference on some price drops after purchase, each within its own window.

Publix gives rain checks on sold-out items it advertised at a sale price, good for 30 days, for up to 8 single items or 4 deals of no more than 20 items.

Most 2026 sales tax holidays were back-to-school weekends in July and August; Florida's hunting, fishing and camping holiday runs through December 31.

Staples matches lower prices from named competitors, Amazon.com included, on identical new items in stock, and refunds the difference within 14 days.

Kirkland Signature, Great Value and up&up are store brands of Costco, Walmart and Target, which design and sell them but rarely say who makes each item.

Best Buy and Staples name Amazon on their own price match lists; Target now matches only its own prices. Here are the rules each store posts.

Sweetwater's published promise is Price Protection, covering a drop in its own price within 60 days; its help pages set no rule for matching other stores.

If Target lowers its own price within 14 days of your purchase, you can ask for the difference; holiday buys get until December 24.

Target may give a paper rain check for an out-of-stock Weekly Ad item in store, good for 30 to 45 days depending on the state, never on Target.com.

Tractor Supply matches a qualifying competitor's lower price on an identical in-stock item bought within 30 days; marketplace sellers and clearance are out.

Walmart.com does not refund the difference when a price drops after you buy, and stores only match a Walmart.com price at checkout.

A rain check lets you buy a sold-out sale item at the sale price later. Federal rules, Sprouts, Meijer and Target each treat it differently.

Amazon runs three big US sale events a year: in 2026 Prime Day ran June 23 to 26 and Prime Big Deal Days October 6 to 7; Black Friday comes in late November.

Best Buy points shoppers to November 27, 2026 for its Black Friday sale, runs a Deal of the Day every day and keeps a Top Deals page all year.

Costco runs dated Warehouse Savings periods all year, and its 2026 Holiday Savings come in waves from October 30 to November 30.