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Prime Day savings: Tips from a shopping pro

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Prime Day savings: Tips from a shopping pro

It’s that time of year again – Amazon’s Prime Day is back for the 10th time, running July 16th and 17th. As usual, Amazon is promising millions of deals across various categories, essentially creating their own shopping event.

“Because there’s so much activity, you certainly don’t want to be going willy-nilly and buying all sorts of things that you might regret later,” said shopping expert Trae Bodge. She says it’s important to be strategic.

Here are some tips to make the most of Prime Day:

  1. Make a list or add desired items to your cart in advance. This way, you can easily track price drops.
  2. Compare deals using sites like Yahoo Shopping and Google Shopping.
  3. Check an item’s Amazon price history at CamelCamelCamel.com. “That’s a good place to get a sense of what the prices are, what the prices were,” said Bodge.
  4. Look for deals on Amazon’s own brands, including Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, Ring, Kindle, Fire, and more. These often see some of the lowest prices during Prime Day.
  5. Expect deals on small home appliances. “We will see lots of deals, especially on small home appliances, like your robotic vacuum or your air fryer,” Bodge predicts.

Other things to know:

  • Alexa can alert you about deals.
  • Invite-only deals are back, where you sign up in advance to be randomly selected for deeply discounted products.
  • You need a Prime membership to access the deals, but you can sign up for a 30-day free trial.

Remember, Amazon isn’t the only retailer with a membership program. Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and even CVS all offer annual memberships.

“You shouldn’t have more than one of those retail memberships. Pick the one that serves you the best and stick with that and shop with that retailer regularly to get the best bang for your buck out of that annual membership fee,” concluded Bodge.

One more tip: you can easily spot price drops by looking for special banners near the prices of items. Look for banners that say “Limited Time Deal,” “With Prime,” or “Lightning Deal.” There could also be others.

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Expert approved gadgets for your gift giving

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Expert approved gadgets for your gift giving

BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission.

Looking for some gifting inspiration? Jacob Palmer of BestReviews stopped by to show off some of their highly rated picks in various categories.

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  • Ocoopa Hand Warmers
  • Renpho Eyeris 1
  • Loftie Alarm Clock
  • Wacaco Nanopresso
  • Beats StudioPros
  • FitBit Versa 4
  • Samsung Galaxy Watch 7
  • Ring Camera
  • HEXBOTS Climbing Gecko
  • Anker Soundcore
  • Theragun Sense
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Thanksgiving Day weather outlook for Southern California

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Thanksgiving Day weather outlook for Southern California

As drizzle and light rain blankets much of Southern California into Tuesday evening, Angelenos can expect dryer weather and warmer temps on Thanksgiving and into the weekend, the National Weather Service reported.  

With the storm winding down, weather officials said rain and drizzle rates were below a tenth of an inch per hour across the L.A. basin and into the mountains, where rainfall amounts were under 0.05 inches.  

While a few showers may linger near the Grapevine tomorrow morning, Wednesday is expected to be dry across L.A. County with a slow warming trend beginning Thanksgiving Day, NWS said.

Highs in the low 70s are forecast as early as Wednesday with an added degree of warming each day through next week.  

Residents in the valleys may see temps rise as high as 80 degrees by Monday.  

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Motorists out Tuesday evening are urged to use extra caution on slick roadways and allow additional time for travel.  

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Drake's lawyers again claim bots, payola helped Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' top the charts

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Drake's lawyers again claim bots, payola helped Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' top the charts

Despite widespread mockery, Drake appears to be serious in his claims that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” received help from payola and bots on its way to being a No. 1 hit.

The Canadian rapper’s attorneys have filed a second petition alleging that Universal Music Group paid for the diss track to be successful, only this time, it was iHeartRadio, not Spotify, that allegedly joined in on the scheme, Forbes reports. While the first filing was made in New York, this second claim was filed in Texas.

The rappers born Aubrey Drake Graham and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth attacked each other in a series of songs earlier this year, with “Not Like Us” serving as the knockout blow in Lamar’s victory in the eyes of many.

Instead of accepting a loss and moving on, Drake has instead alleged UMG actively worked to slander one of their artists at the expense of another, as both rappers have their music distributed by the company. UMG has denied the claims.

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“The suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue,” the record label said in a statement. “No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.”

Lamar has not publicly responded to the claims, though he’s traditionally used his songs to make his case, including on Friday’s surprise album “GNX,” where he claimed he “just strangled me a GOAT,” the “greatest of all time” title that Drake frequently claimed.

Hip-hop fans on the internet, however, did not wait to get their jokes off.

Twitter personality Dragonfly Jonez said he’d “never seen a bigger L in rap history” and pointed out that this lawsuit attacks streaming numbers, but not Lamar’s claims that Drake is a “certified pedophile” whose friends are also sexual predators.

“You are being called a pedophile who hangs with and harbors other pedophiles in his own home and even has these pedophiles on your payroll on the biggest rap single of the year,” Jones wrote, with an imaginary Drake responding, “Excuse me?!?! Biggest rap single of the year?????? We’ll see about that!”

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New York Times opinion writer Jane Coaston also weighed in, paraphrasing one of Lamar’s more prominent lines on “Not Like Us” when supporting the logic of UMG’s claims.

“The audience ain’t dumb, Drake,” she tweeted.

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