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            <span class="hf2">Sorry for Price Gouging Water</span>
            

            
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          <p>One of the&#xA0;<strong>Best Buy</strong>&#xA0;stores in Houston offered Hurricane Harvey victims bottled water ... for a price, a very high one and now the company&apos;s apologizing.</p>

<p>The store was caught selling 12-packs of Smartwater for $29.98 and 24-packs of Dasani for a whopping $42.96. A photo of the display went viral this week, amid allegations of price gouging in the wake of the Harvey.</p>
<p>Best Buy now admits, &quot;<span>This was a big mistake on the part of a few employees at one store&#xA0;on Friday. As a company we are focused on helping, not hurting affected people. We&#x2019;re sorry and it won&#x2019;t happen again.&quot;</span></p>
<p>A rep for the retail tech giant added ... Best Buy doesn&apos;t normally sell water, and that the employees at this specific store were pricing the packs based on single bottle prices.</p>
<p>Gotta say ... we think the Geek Squad would not approve.</p>
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