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Just 41 Practical Things Really And Truly Worth Buying From This Year’s Labor Day Sales
Filed 49m ago · Via HuffPost · The Buffoon Desk
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HuffPost's shopping desk publishes a 41-item Labor Day sale guide, leading with Sony wireless headphones at 45% off and an REI waist pack discounted up to 51%. The outlet discloses upfront that it earns a share of sales from the retailers featured, and that prices are subject to change without notice.
The headphone entry leans on a single enthusiastic customer review describing them as a 'total game changer' after several other pairs broke, without independent testing cited by the outlet itself. The waist pack pitch emphasizes storage capacity and an adjustable strap, sourced from unspecified 'reviewers.'
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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
Forty-one 'practical' items is a lot of practicality to cram into one Monday, and every one of them happens to come with a link that pays the messenger. Nothing wrong with liking headphones, but building the pitch on one shopper's five-star testimony is like judging a truck by what the fellow who sold it to you says about it. Call it what it is: a catalog wearing a press badge.