I was recently looking to buy some items from Nordstrom outside of their normal sales. Specifically basketball shorts, work pants, and dress socks.

After a few days of manually refreshing product landing pages, I found PriceLasso which tracks Nordstrom prices with email alerts when they drop.

The alerts get default to 10% off on PriceLasso, but can be customized to any amount. I chose 30% to make sure it was a really good sale and avoid any Nordstrom false positives.

I got my first alert a few days later, which I wasn’t expecting, since I thought price adjustments happen far more rarely outside of the Nordstrom Anniversary sales.

The inflation you usually read about is for grocery food products like eggs and milk, but I was curious what it looked like for pet food as well.

Turns out the same kind of inflation is present in pet food as well.

I used PriceLasso to track Chewy prices, which is one of the most popular online pet food stores. I just had to add individual products and it price tracked for me.

What I found was actually very similar to this chart by FRED for pet food prices (though mine included more luxury food brands, and was specifically for dog food).

Since 2020, prices to 2025 increased by 20%+.

Sidenote: inflation affects most product categories, but some more than others.

Lululemon makes high quality products. I previously had the same pair of Lululemon swim trunks for nearly 8 years and wanted to buy a new pair. I was checking out the We Made Too Much sales at Lululemon, but definitely became tiresome.

I then used the PriceLasso Lululemon price tracker to automate the process for me and in a few weeks the price of the swim trunks dropped below my price threshold and I got an alert.

Definitely worth the wait and way better than manually checking Lululemon’s website.

Zappos is one of the only online shoe stores that has exactly the width and size of shoe I want. What’s especially interesting is how often Zappos has price changes. Since I buy the same pair of shoes to stock up, I can wait a few months for the price to drop.

I set up the PriceLasso Zappos price tracker to notify me when the price decreases below 25% off, and the waiting game began. It took a few months for my favorite pair of Nike shoes to drop but I was elated when it finally happened!

It also didn’t happen during a normal Zappos sale, just out of the blue, but I couldn’t complain too much with such a steep discount.

The Lipstick Effect shows how makeup purchases increase during recessionary periods. What’s interesting is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, so I curious how prices change at one the largest retailers Sephora.

While it’s definitely possible to manually check prices for a basket of goods by refreshing pages once a day or weekly, it’s incredibly laborious.

PriceLasso has a Sephora price tracker that makes it super simple, by checking prices for you on specific Sephora landing pages, and then alerting you when prices actually drop.

It’s interesting to see how often and how frequently Alo Yoga prices drop for you favorite yoga gear.

I was manually checking the pages at https://www.aloyoga.com/collections/womens-sale and https://www.aloyoga.com/collections/mens-sale-all

I found it far easier to use PriceLasso for automatically checking Alo Yoga Prices with email alerts.

With that I could see that Alo Yoga items somewhat randomly go on sale, and they could be 20-% -40% off. The size options definitely became more limited as items went onto sale as presumably they are now on clearance.

I was curious how often the Allbirds changes prices on shoes like the Tree Runners, so I started using PriceLasso to track the Allbirds prices.

Interestingly enough, when one Allbirds show color went on sale, they all went on sale.

And this was independent of the shoe size, even though I assume some of the price drops were because these items are on clearance or not returning.

I loved how PriceLasso could easily watch the prices and alert you when they dropped, and the price history charts were great to see the actual price swings.

In my time using eBay for the last 2 decades I’ve seen a huge amount of pricing strategies employed by sellers for buy now listings.

The most obvious one is to start high, and if nobody bites, lower the price.

Knowing this, I started watching some listings I was interested in, and waiting for the price to drop, and it was wild how often it happened.

Sometimes within hours, and other times it might take a few weeks, but seems like even small eBay sellers don’t want to sit on inventory that might be taking up room in their garage.

I’ve been using PriceLasso to price track these eBay listings, and love the price history charts that are auto created as well.

Really nice to not have to remember to manually check eBay for each product I’m watching and to just get automatic alerts.

As an engineer I also tend to be a early tech and gadget adopter, and as such try out the latest and greatest electronics.

Best Buy often has the stuff I want, but not always at the prices I’m willing to pay, and I found that if I am willing to wait a few weeks or even a month or two, the prices could easily drop 20-40%, depending on the electronics category.

Checking prices manually is rough and one more thing I had to remember what to do until I started using the PriceLasso Best Buy price tracker.

I’m now able to simply get email alerts when the prices of a specific Best Buy product drops

Shopping at Sam’s Club can be a great way to save by buying bulk items at a cheaper price, especially if there aren’t any Costco warehouses close to you.

Using the PriceLasso Sam’s Club price tracker, you can easily set up alerts for multiple warehouse products and get notified via email when they drop in price.

By default, PriceLasso sets a 10% discount threshold and you can customize it to any percentage or raw number that fits your budget. This is especially useful for tracking deals leading up to big sales events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Additionally, PriceLasso provides price history charts, so you can see past price fluctuations and confirm whether you’re getting the best possible deal. Instead of manually checking prices every day, let the tracker do the work for you!

If you’re like me, rather than check the Instant Savings book, I actually use PriceLasso to see which items I care about are now on sale.