Best Buy put out a statement in response to a viral photo of cases of bottled water being sold at a Texas location for $42.96.

With people in Texas concerned about price gouging during the hurricane, this image got a lot of attention today:

One Houston resident sent me a pic of water he saw being sold for *$42* at a nearby Best Buy. They were kind enough to offer $29 bottles too pic.twitter.com/8dKz3sJJM1 — ken klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 29, 2017

People on Twitter were outraged by Best Buy selling water for that much during Hurricane Harvey.

Mashable obtained a statement from Best Buy apologizing for what they explained was just a mistake:

“This was a big mistake on the part of a few employees at one store on Friday,” Carly Charlson, a public relations representative at Best Buy, wrote in a statement provided to Mashable. “As a company we are focused on helping, not hurting affected people. We’re sorry and it won’t happen again.” Charlson explained that Best Buy doesn’t generally sell cases of water, and “the mistake was made when employees priced a case of water using the single-bottle price for each bottle in the case.” Multiplication led to an inflated figure.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said yesterday he’s received hundreds of complaints of price gouging over the weekend.

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