Sneaky tactics of mattress salesmenChoosing a mattress is an expensive decision and the last thing you want to do is spend more than you���ve budgeted. Read moreMattress buying guideYou should think about buying a new mattress if you wake up tired or achy, you tend to sleep better at hotels than at home, your mattress looks... Read moreHow to Buy a BedWalk into a mattress store and you'll be bombarded with options: plush vs.firm, foam vs. Read moreSneaky Little Ways To Save CashPhoto: Steve Mason/Getty Images Turns out the expiration or generally accepted toss-by date on certain products is total BS. By Andrew DePietro, Finance Writer Like other big-box retailers, Walmart offers plenty of Memorial Day deals to ring in summer 2016. The retailer offers its famous rollback prices on a number of Walmart deals on products in-store, but it also offers specials for shopping online. ", a coupon and deals site that also features Walmart coupons. said an important feature of Walmart deals over Memorial Day weekend are the store's Memorial Day featured categories.
Plus, you can get free shipping on orders of $50 or more. With this advice in mind, click through to see the best things to buy at Walmart during Memorial Day 2016. From food to clothing items, Walmart is offering great Memorial Day deals on tons of appliances, groceries, clothing and more. Here are some of the best discounts and sales you can expect this year. Related: 9 Secret Ways to Save Money at Walmart Memorial Day sales at Walmart include rollback prices on kitchen appliances, where you can take up to 65 percent off, said Perez. For example, you can save 50 percent on a Presto electric griddle. Walmart's deals on appliances don't end in the kitchen. said Memorial Day weekend is a great time to time to buy air conditioners, too. You can save money on various types of air conditioners, such as $76 off a Frigidaire window air conditioner or $70 off an LG portable air conditioner. Buying new bedding might be the last thing on your mind this Memorial Day weekend, but Walmart's deals on mattresses might change your mind.
, a website that combines many coupons, including coupons for Walmart. For Memorial Day 2016, Walmart's mattress deals continue. The store is offering its Super Mattress Savings as part of its Memorial Day sales, with some mattresses as low as $79, like the Signature Sleep Gold Inspire 6-inch memory foam mattress. Or, you can save nearly $700 on the Linenspa 10-inch gel memory foam mattress, which is only around $300. Just in time for your Memorial Day barbecue, take advantage of Walmart's deals on food, including $10 off your first online grocery order worth $50 or more using the coupon code REALEASY, according to Slickdeals.net, which shares, rates and reviews deals and coupons. This offer is valid through Nov. 1, and it's only available at participating Walmart stores. You might want to wait until August to buy summer items at the cheapest, but Memorial Day weekend is still a great time to stock up on clothing and accessories at Walmart, said Amy Chang of Slickdeals.
Clearance apparel starts as low as $2.Here are some of the best Memorial Day deals. Walmart offers plenty of savings on gardening products such as flower pots, planters and fountains. But, Walmart also has excellent deals on heavier gardening equipment, like up to $80 off select lawn mowers. Memorial Day signals the unofficial start of summer. You can get ready for the heat by taking advantage of one of Walmart's many Memorial Day deals on pools. For example, you can save about $250 on a Coleman above-ground swimming pool set. Walmart's deals on outdoor fun continue with sales on bikes. You can potentially save more than $100 off bicycles, depending on the bike and brand. Along with bikes and swimming pools, Walmart's Memorial Day sales include money-saving rollbacks on swing sets. Walmart offers a variety of swing sets with savings on certain models. For example, the IronKids Inspiration 250 Fitness Playground Metal Swing Set is a little under $200, compared to its regular listing price of $399.
If you plan on camping, exploring the outdoors or getting in shape this summer, check out Walmart's Memorial Day deals on sporting goods and outdoor equipment, including air mattresses, sleeping bags, treadmills, coolers and other gear. The Ozark Trail six-person instant cabin tent, for example, is available for only $99 -- it was previously $130. Planning to throw a barbecue this summer? If so, be on the watch for Memorial Day sales on grills and outdoor cooking appliances. Backyard Grill's dual gas and charcoal grill is available for less than $200, a savings of $101. And, the Char-Broil Performance TRU-Infrared three-burner gas grill is around $350, saving you $50. Patio furniture is key for Memorial Day weekend barbecues and for the summer, in general. Walmart's rollback prices mean that you can save on a variety of outdoor furniture sets and pieces, including $675 off a $1,400, six-piece outdoor furniture set.Whether you're looking to buy a new television or a computer, Walmart offers some pretty impressive deals this Memorial Day.
Walmart boasts some of the best Memorial Day sales on televisions from brands like Vizio, Sony, Samsung and more. For example, you can save $230 on a 42-inch LED HDTV from RCA. Computers are another electronics deal you can score at Walmart during Memorial Day weekend. Walmart rolled back prices on brands like HP, Dell and even Apple, among others. One deal that stands out is the Dell Inspiron 3459 all-in-one desktop computer; you can save $150 off the $849 regular listing price. Walmart deals continue on Apple products. For example, save $100 on a 32 gigabyte Apple iPad Air with WiFi connection -- and get free shipping. One of the best things to buy at Walmart this Memorial Day weekend is a prepaid smartphone. You can save anywhere between a few dollars to more than $200 on prepaid smartphones from brands such as Samsung, Verizon, Apple and more.The last time I bought a mattress for myself was about 11 years ago. I bought a fairly new full-sized one off a coworker.
Four moves and a decade later, we’ve decided it’s time to replace it with an adult (and sometimes an extra toddler)-sized bed. When we started looking, I was shocked at the prices. $3000 for a mattress? What the heck are these things made of? Knowing very little, we went shopping for a mattress and other things on a Saturday morning. The first place, we stopped, Sleepy’s, seemed nice enough. We laid on a few and honed in on the one that we both felt most comfortable in. Meanwhile, Audrey discovered the fun of letting herself fall backwards onto mattresses and did it all over the store. She was giggling and the whole store couldn’t help but look and smile at her. Unfortunately, we soon stopped smiling. When we found something we liked, the seemingly helpful salesman started to get more aggressive. He asked how much we were looking at paying and I made up a number on the spot, something way below the listed price on the bed. The said he would “talk with his manager” and see if he could get us that price.
Then he started asking us if we could commit and have it delivered tomorrow. Anne had walked outside to give Audrey a break by that point, so I said I had to go out and talk with her about it. We talked about it for a bit, then decided we didn’t like the high-pressure sales pitch, so we got ready to leave. I had the car started up when the salesman came out and approached the car window. He then said that he had “talked to his manager” and he could give us the price we wanted AND a free “platinum package”. I said we would talk about it and let him know. We again decided this was sketchy, but to make good on my promise, I went in and gave him my phone number and left. Later that day we went to Jordan’s Furniture, generally known to be a reputable place with reasonable places. The salespeople there were nice and NOT high-pressure. Prices were generally lower, but strangely, we couldn’t find the mattress we found at Sleepy’s. They had Sertas, but not the one we liked.
Being indecisive, we left with a couple new names of ones we liked. Later, we went to Mattress Discounters. The woman there was not pushy and told us about the BBB complaints that Sleepy’s (a 700-store chain) had gotten. We decided to think some more and head home. At home, I did some research online and I found something strange – I couldn’t find much of anything on the mattresses we saw that we liked. I found some mattresses, many of the same brand, but not the same models. I later came to find out that this was completely intentional. The mattress industry is one big scam. There is no way to make an objective decision on a mattress using actual facts. Here’s a few things that the mattress industry does to get you: 1. They mark up their prices 100% to 200%!! No wonder the first guy was able to get his “manager” to give me such a steep discount. They were probably still going to make hundreds of dollars of profits on it. 2. They give the same mattresses different names in different stores or they set up exclusivity agreements by mattress line in certain stores.
This makes it impossible to comparison shop because… 3. They make it really had to get actual facts about the mattresses. Stuff like coil counts, materials, overall construction are shrouded in secrecy. But that doesn’t really matter because… 4. There’s no objective measure of mattress quality. Consumer Reports won’t rate them because they can’t get the data and there’s no testing that actually says higher coil counts are better or the number of wires in the coils makes a difference in any way. You’re left to deciding how much you believe the marketing. Is a pillow top made of alpaca hair any better than one made of cotton? Your guess is as good as mine. 5. There’s very little online reviews of mattresses, probably because the model names are so fractured. The ones I did find looked more like content-free sites designed to attract referral credits. With some more research, I found out that it was somewhat possible to compare mattresses models from different places.
It turns out that they really only make one hardness variation in each line. So you can assume that a Plush Firm mattress in the “Classic” line, is the same as another Plush Firm in the Classic line, even if they have different names. was very helpful in figuring this out. We were able to understand which mattresses we saw and how they related to each other. For example, the mattress we liked at Jordan’s was a product line better than the one we saw at Mattress Discounters, even though they came out to the same price! Clearly Jordan’s had the better deal, but US-Mattress had an even better deal. So I did something I never thought I could do, buy a mattress over the internet. I’m pretty sure it’s the same one we saw in the store and the free delivery and frame were a good deal. I’m sure that even if I’m getting it at half the price I saw it listed at elsewhere, they’re still making a decent profit on it. Anne and I agree that buying a mattress is worse than buying a car.