Why do we allow certain people to lower the price of laptops to include the price of the warranty and pass it off as price matching.
We have someone in our district being hailed a hero for his practice. The customer doesn't ask for the price match. He has the Best Buy ad nearby and matched to it anyway, saving the money for the customer. He is a hero for all the ESP sales in some eyes. But some of us can't bring ourselves to cheat like that. It is called shoveling in NYS and it is illegal. But if you can move on metric, you are a hero.
Once apon a time we used to sell Sprint long distance service at the register. Save $5 off you purchase today by signing up with sprint. The store succeeded at that one metric and were heroes. Of course the were so focused on that metric they went into the red and the store closed. Oh well.