Los Angeles, Ca
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:
- Make a list or add desired items to your cart in advance. This way, you can easily track price drops.
- Compare deals using sites like Yahoo Shopping and Google Shopping.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Los Angeles, Ca
L.A. Tenants Union trying to save business owner given eviction notice ‘without reason or discussion’
The Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) is trying to save a Highland Park business after they say the owner was given 60 days notice to vacate “without any reason or discussion.”
The tenants union says that Junior’s Discount Party Supply, has been owned by Silvia Flores for 20 years and that the store, located on York Boulevard, is “known and loved by thousands of community members who utilize her crucial services for party rentals, general household items and to send money transfers.”
“Her legacy small business has been successful and has supported her family,” LATU says.
That legacy is now at risk, however, as LATU says the building was purchased this past month, meaning Flores and four neighboring businesses were issued 60-day eviction notices.
“[The] 60-day eviction notice [terminates] her tenancy of two decades without reason or discussion,” LATU said in a statement tied to a petition to keep the store open. “Silvia has not violated any clause of her lease nor has she fallen behind on rent payments. In fact, the new property owner has not even introduced himself to the woman who he intends to uproot from her business and the community.”
LATU listed the new owner as Dr. Donald Abrahm and his real estate investment company AEA Investments VIII, LLC. They also said that the idea of pushing out “legacy businesses without a care for people or neighborhood[s]” is nothing new.
“In addition to causing Silvia, a low-income immigrant mother and grandmother, to lose her livelihood, this eviction will further accelerate gentrification in Highland Park. This is just one example of a war on commercial tenants,” the union said. “Displacement of tenants, whether residential or commercial, is an issue that too many of us have faced and we refuse to be complicit. Although this eviction is technically legal, it is unjust and inhumane.”
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