Amazon will not be the only place to get Prime Day pricing. A few major chains say they plan to match the online giant’s low prices during the 36-hour members-only shopping extravaganza, which kicks off at 3 p.m. ET Monday. Bed Bath & Beyond, J.C. Penney, Lowe’s and JOANN Stores say they will match Amazon’s prices in most cases. Items that are in-stock, identical and sold directly from Amazon and not one of its third-party sellers, which eliminates quite a few Amazon deals.
Target, Walmart and Best Buy won’t match Prime Day specials because they are only available to Prime members; pretty much the way they handle Black Friday deals.
“One of Target’s vendors, Welspun Global Brands (Welspun), was one of the producers of Egyptian Cotton 500-thread count sheets under the Fieldcrest label for Target,” said Molly Snyder, a Target company spokeswoman. “After an extensive investigation, we recently confirmed that Welspun substituted another type of non-Egyptian cotton when producing these sheets between August 2014 and July 2016. Neither Target nor Fieldcrest had any knowledge of this substitution. These sheets were produced by a number of vendors and only one of those vendors was substituting product.” Anyone who purchased these products produced between August 2014 and July 2016 can
