Which stores still refund a price drop, and which quietly stopped

Price adjustment used to be standard. Over the last decade a lot of large retailers quietly dropped it, and the ones that kept it rarely advertise it. So we went and read the policies.

The ones worth knowing

• Costco: 30 days, one of the most generous windows in retail.
• B&H Photo: 30 days on their own price drops, credited to your original payment method.
• Best Buy: 15 days standard, 30 for My Best Buy Plus and Total members.
• Target: 14 days, their own price only.
• Kohl's: 14 days with the original receipt.
• Nordstrom: 10 days from the ship date, and it covers select competitors too.
• Cabela's and Bass Pro: only 7 days, but it covers both their own drops and qualifying competitor prices.

The ones that will not

Walmart has no post-purchase adjustment. Neither does Wayfair. Amazon is a special case: they officially adjust televisions within 30 days and guarantee pre-order pricing, but for everything else there is no formal policy, though their customer service does often issue a courtesy credit if you ask within about a week.

Why the no answers matter

Of the 792 retailers we have mapped, most are not a yes. That is not a gap in the research, it is the research. Knowing that Walmart will never refund a price drop is worth exactly as much as knowing Costco will, because it stops you spending an afternoon on a claim that was never going to pay.

We will not mark a store as a yes unless its real policy backs it up. A wrong yes means a customer gets charged for a refund that never arrives, and that is not a mistake worth making to pad a number.