Best Buy Makes Price-Matching Policy Permanent

Looking for ways to combat “showrooming,” Best Buy has confirmed that it will make its holiday price-matching promotion permanent. Best Buy said it is taking effect on March 1, and that it is also reducing its return policy to 15 days from 30 days, Bloomberg reports. Other retailers, including Target, have taken similar steps to keep customers from looking for cheaper prices on Amazon when in the store.

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus