5 Deals You Need to Know Today: This Roundup Needs a Better Name, Right?
You may notice this roundup seems a little distracted, but fear not: all the deals still work just fine, no matter how weirdly fixated I become on finding a better name for the roundup, including the Lowe's sale that inspired my musings. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Home & Garden Deal
Lowe's The Back Aisle Clearance Outdoor Deals
Up to 75% off"The Back Aisle" would work really well as the name of a throwaway column in a monthly British hardware magazine where the least professional staffer gets to write whatever about whatever. And thus, it's equally the perfect name for this roundup. But for now, it remains simply the name of this sale section at Lowe's, where brands like Craftsman, Kobalt, and EGO go to whisper secret jokes amongst themselves and be less expensive than they might otherwise have been. But yes: "The Back Aisle". One day, mark my words, this roundup will have a name, even if Lowe's got to that one first. And it'll have expensive graphics, and maybe even its own autoplaying theme song. Misplacedly-nostalgic colleague N. Gosker will insist it should sound like hold music from the early 1990s. It'll be the worst page on the internet. More so.
Top Shoe Deal
adidas Men's Daily 3.0 Shoes
$27 via code "ADIJUNE40"Daily 3.0? We could call this organ the "Daily 5.0", on account of the five deals. I don't know what the "point zero" is accomplishing there, but then, I don't know what it's accomplishing in the shoe name either. Whatever adidas' reasoning, you can reduce their price by 18.0 dollaridoos by using coupon code "ADIJUNE4.0".
EXCEPT! In a shocking twist, it's not "ADIJUNE4.0", but the less thematically-sympatico "ADIJUNE40". Oh well.
Top Sale Deal
Woot Busters at Woot
New Deals Each DayI ain't afraid of no Woot. Although they are, lest we forget, an Amazon company, so they presumably have some power they could bring to bear if I notably displeased them. Luckily, I'm under strict instructions to stop pointlessly angering the stores we list, so I remain in my neutral state of general Woot unspookedness. This Woot Busters sale in particular promises new deals every day right up until Sunday, but I think the deals drop at a regular time, or at least in a relatively controlled, understated fashion, rather than with a sudden and unpredictable barrage of loud noises and strobing light effects to make me dizzy. So again, unspooked. Nice try, Woot.
Top PC Peripheral Deal
Anker 5-in-1 USB-C Hub
$12 w/ Prime"The 5-in-1 Hub" is yet another vaguely appropriate name for this roundup. We really need to pick one before various gimmicks, gadgets, and gizmos around the superformation interwebs have stolen all the good ones. Animated banners, that's what we'll have. You crave a more Geocities-esque experience in your deal hunting, we know you do. And you crave the ability to turn a USB-C port into three USB A ports (one of which is 3.0, in a sweet homage to those adidas shoes from earlier), an HDMI port, and a USB-C power port. Today, we can give you the latter, so long as you're a Prime member, which statistically you are. The former? Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life
Top Apparel Deal
Nordstrom Rack Clearance Deals
Up to 93% offThis probably doesn't work in any kind of roundup-naming capacity. At best, if we were to turn it into a Nordstrom-exclusive newsletter, you could call it the Nordstrom Racket. But that just makes it sound like some kind of money laundering operation, and while I'm all in favor, I don't think that's what's happening here. Instead, it's some clothes and stuff on clearance sale. Which yes, means it's time for our traditional Nordstrom Rack guessing game. This time, there are four brands that feature in this very sale that I think would make fitting, or at least amusing, names for this roundup. Except one of those brands is fake. Can you spot it?!?! Perhaps. You may try, at least:
- Swedish Hasbeens
- Five 'til Midnight
- Business & Pleasure Co.
- Spiritual Gangster
