5 Deals You Need to Know Today: Let's North Face the Music and... Save?
We start with REI, and end with a King. This is really well-observed for lovers of the Romance languages. Check out these offers and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Apparel Deal
The North Face New Markdowns at REI
Up to 55% offAre The North Face missing a trick by not splitting their shoe business off into a subsidiary called The South Sole? The answer is no. But if the question was instead "Is a whole slew of The North Face jackets, backpacks, and such on sale at REI?", then the answer would be yes. So you see how important it is to ask the right questions. Treat life like a language game.
Top Underwear Deal
Emergency Underpants
$7.25One of the Amazon reviews for this Evacuation Emergency kit is titled "For when the crap literally hits the fan". This suggests that the reviewer in question keeps a fan in their underwear, right? Seems uncomfortable, and probably unsafe in any sitting situation. At the very least, it would probably result in a far wider distribution of mess around one's underwear and beyond. The official DealNews advice on the matter: leave the fan at home. Even personal fans are not that personal.
Top Tools & Hardware Deal
Little Giant Ladders at Woot
Up to 58% offWe're lucky that I'm still a notionally human fella, because were an A.I. to come across a brand called "Little Giant Ladders", the robot brain from which it emanates would no doubt start to smoke and sputter before exploding in a disappointing little puff of indignance. Truly, my capacity for cognitive dissonance has never served me better. And it allows me to tell you this: Woot (an Amazon company, lest we forget) has one… two… as many as five Little Giant Ladders on sale, with names like "Microburst" and "Mightylite". I want Desmond Dekker to sing the theme song for that second one. Pre-2006. For obvious reasons.
Top Office Furniture Deal
Insignia 47" Computer Desk
$37They say this is a computer desk, and they're right, insofar as you could certainly put a computer on it. It is also, however, simply a desk. It is some wood, sat firmly atop some legs, which reach to the floor. It meets all the criteria you might expect a desk to meet, and could hold anything, up to and including: a pen; a pencil; some paper; a small radio; a cup of coffee; a snow globe; some books. The list isn't endless, but is still too long to continue with here. Suffice it to say, it's truly multipurpose in the ways you'd think a horizontal plank of wood on some legs should be. And now? Now it is cheap.
Top Restaurant Deal
Walmart+ Burger King Whopper Week
Free Whopper w/ $1 purchase for Walmart+ membersIs it strange that the classic Burger King mascot — the titular Burger King — seems like more of a trickster god than McDonald's mascot, who is a literal sinister clown, backed by a cadre of creeps including a convicted thief and a purple sleep paralysis demon? Perhaps it's my classically Irish distrust of monarchy, even in burger chain form. But I'd still be hard-pressed to turn down a free Whopper with a $1 purchase, even if I kept a watchful eye out whilst on the premises. Kings, clowns, thieves, sentient Trivial Pursuit Art & Literature wedges, and whoever else, know this: you are all mere pretenders to the Pepsiman throne.
