This holiday season, millions of American shoppers are looking for as much financial help as they can find. Although the economic recession has officially ended, the only real winners have been businesses, and many American families are still struggling to survive on their low incomes. Fortunately, Wal-Mart has created a new holiday price guarantee policy that is very favorable towards customers this holiday season, and if you understand how to utilize that policy to your advantage, your family will really save a lot this year. Use your wireless internet access to get online to learn more about the policy and to do some research on low prices for the products you want.

The basic terms of Wal-Mart's new holiday guarantee policy are that if you make a purchase between now and Christmas but then later find the item for a lower price at any of the store's competitors, Wal-Mart will give you the price difference in the form of a gift certificate. You can use your wireless internet connection to read all of the fine print online, but in essence, this is a price match policy that gives customers two entire months to find lower prices and take advantage of them. Although the money doesn't come directly back to you as cash, it comes back in the form of a gift card, which simply means you'll have to use the price difference to buy something else in one of Wal-Mart's stores. It's as good as actual money, and you can even use it to shop online with your wireless internet access. This kind of guarantee is much more generous than most of the policies that big corporations have, and it helps ensure that you can feel comfortable going ahead and buying your presents from Wal-Mart early, with the peace of mind to know that you can get the difference if the price goes lower during the shopping season before the holidays.

Once you've made your holiday purchases, you can use your wireless internet connection to research lower prices that Wal-Mart's competitors may have. It's important to recognize though, that the company's price guarantee doesn't extend to offers that companies have made online only. So if you read about great prices online, you'll have to have a local retailer in your area that offers that price. A very likely situation is that you'll find a great price online from a different national retailer, but then that company will have to have a local store in your area in order for Wal-Mart to match their price. Additionally, Wal-Mart won't honor Black Friday prices because they are exceptionally low and are meant to get customers into the stores on that specific day. Still though, chances are good that you will be able to use your wireless internet access to do some research online to find out about what stores are offering cheaper prices on the holiday gifts that you've bought, and you can use that information to get the difference back in Wal-Mart gift cards. Once you've done that, you may even decide to give those gift cards to some of your loved ones for their presents this holiday season.