I understand the effects of what it can cause, and I am not debating that returning something to a store where you didn't buy it is legal. What I am saying is if I did buy something at a CHAIN retailer, and one of their stores had an item on clearance, and none of their other stores did, and I buy it cheaper and return to the other CHAIN store as allowed by their return policy, is that fraud, and why? Especially if I indicate that it was purchased on clearance, and they respond with, "we can only give you store credit for whatever price comes up in the computer". The first store is the one who decided to accept a lower profit margin, and that sale is done. The second store VALUED the item just as all the others are priced on their shelves and gave STORE CREDIT, not cash for it. This is a market, just as in the Stock market where Market Makers find opportunity between the selling price of one buyer, and the buying price of another, and make the difference. That is a perfectly legal and common practice; and I can guarantee you that the buyer or seller is not told that their is better opportunity available to them. Except this doesn't deal in cash, only store credit. Remember, the 2'nd store now has the merchandise, presumable in resale condition (assume it was never opened) that they VALUE at what they supplied in store credit. They will then presumably sell it for that value and get CASH. The only part of this that lost anything was the 1'st store which CHOSE to lower their own profit margin.
So, considering that, please explain to me if this is fraud, and why (in actual law, not in moral examples), because I don't see it. At best, it is a chain store not in full control of it's pricing and tracking processes and business model.

