Five Things to Avoid Buying Over Labor Day
Retailers will be putting all sorts of goods on sale over Labor Day weekend, but that doesn’t mean consumers should take the bait.
For one, this year’s holiday falls late in the calendar, which means some retailers may hold off on big sales until the year-end shopping season picks up in earnest in November. Some merchants are already hitching their deals to Christmas shopping, with Walmart (WMT) starting a holiday push last week.
Although deals abound, savvy shoppers will realize that some product categories will offer better savings than others. Some consumers may want to hold off on purchases until October or November, when pre-Black Friday sales will begin in earnest, according to Kristin Cook, the managing editor at Ben’s Bargains, a deal and coupon site started in 2000 by a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
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