What a Price Chart Can't Tell You
Price-tracking tools expose fake discounts but miss the personalized, bundled, and marketplace pricing that increasingly sets…
Deals
Price drops, sales events and the mechanics of retail promotions.
The Hidden Math of Doorbusters and Loss Leaders
Retailers advertise a handful of impossible bargains to pull in crowds who end up paying full price for everything else.
Caesars Is Paying Back Its Own Resort Fee
The company now matches the daily resort fee with a food and beverage credit of the same size, which cancels the charge without…
The Sale That Never Ends: Spotting Real Clearance
A guide to telling a business truly liquidating stock from one dressing up permanent pricing as an emergency.
Why 'Was $180, Now $69' Rarely Means What It Says
Retailers build the 'original' price to be discounted before an item ever reaches the floor, so the sale price is often the real…
How to Read a Sale Price During Big Shopping Events
Next to today's deal sits a crossed-out 'was' price. More often than the discount, that number is the real story of the sale.
Binding of Isaac Console Edition Launches Same Day as GTA 6
The indie roguelike's multiplayer console debut shares a November 19 release date with the gaming industry's biggest expected…
Indie horror hit Carrion steeply discounted in Devolver Digital Steam sale
The 2020 reverse-horror game drops to $3.99, down 80% from $19.99, as part of a broader publisher-wide sale running through…
Cognition CEO Rejects SpaceX AI Acquisition
TechCrunch reported that SpaceX sought to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, but CEO Scott Wu publicly denied the talks.