Thanks to Black Friday
In the good old days of Black Friday before stores like Best Buy started getting very crafty and clandestine with their deals, there used to be a slight buffer where someone would leak the sales and the items wouldn’t be removed from the shelves.
I don’t remember specifically, but they had a system to prevent you from purchasing then price matching retroactively.
As soon as this happened, I strolled on down to Best Buy, took a bunch of stuff that I wanted, and hid them in their dryers and washing machines. Basically, I used whatever hiding place that didn’t look like it got a lot of browsing or consideration.
Then when Black Friday comes, I sleep in, head to the store around noon, and pull the doorbusters out of a washing machine. Credit: Reddit/GleepGlopDC