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What to know about Walmart’s rival Amazon Prime Day sale, ‘Walmart Deals’
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Stay sharp, shoppers. Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, with deals dropping up to the big days: Tuesday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 17. But Prime Day isn’t the only huge savings event in town. Walmart is gearing up for one of its biggest deal extravaganzas yet: Walmart Deals.
During this rival Prime Day sale, you’ll have the opportunity to shop hundreds of deals on a wide range of popular items. Whether you’re looking for the latest electronics, home essentials, toys, or travel necessities, Walmart Deals will have a little something for everyone. Plus, with discounts on back-to-school supplies, you’ll be able to grab some of the necessities you’ll need for your family to start the year off right. Walmart+ members get their first pick of the deals.
Still have questions about Walmart Deals and what you can expect from the event? Read on to have them answered so you can be as prepared as possible. Those savings aren’t going to scoop themselves up.
What is Walmart Deals?
Walmart Deals is what Walmart is calling its “largest deals event” that will bring customers the chance to save big on a wide variety of items across various categories. It will be taking place online via the Walmart app and Walmart digital storefront.
From electronics like smart TVs and laptops to home essentials like vacuum cleaners and air purifiers, Walmart Deals is putting tons of goodies on sale that you can shop in tandem with Amazon’s Prime Day deals.
The event also features discounts on toys, patio furniture, and travel accessories, so you can find something for everyone you may be shopping for.
What kind of sales can you expect to see during Walmart Deals?
Walmart is already advertising some of the deals you can find during its Walmart Deals event. You’ll be able to save hundreds across the retailer’s various categories, but here are some of the deals that you can go ahead and bookmark to come back to once the event begins in earnest.
When can you shop Walmart Deals?
The Walmart Deals event kicks off on Monday, July 8, 2024 at 5 p.m. ET and runs through Thursday, July 11 at 11:59 p.m. ET. However, if you’re a Walmart+ member, you’ll have early access to early deals starting at noon ET on July 8.
That’s a full five hours before the event opens to the general public. This early access gives Walmart+ members the chance to snag some of the best deals before they sell out. You can sign up to become a Walmart+ member ahead of the event, and it’s a good idea to do so if you want to take full advantage of what’s available during the sale.
Walmart offers a variety of pickup and delivery options for you to receive the items you’ve purchased during the sale. Whether you prefer in-store pickup, early morning delivery, late-night express delivery or next- and two-day shipping, Walmart is offering a variety of options so you can get your items easily.
Is the Walmart Deals event only open to Walmart+ members?
The Walmart Deals sales event is open to all shoppers, but you’ll miss out on early opportunities to save on some of the biggest deals that go early five hours before the rest of the world can access them. If you want to take advantage of the biggest perk of being a Walmart+ member right now, sign up for the service so you can join other shoppers in snagging what they want just as the sale begins instead of having to settle for the picked-over remains of the event.
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Is shopping the Walmart Deals event worth it?
We think shopping the 2024 Walmart Deals event will be worth it. Walmart Deals’ existence overlapping with Prime Day means you have even more deals to choose from — deals you can shop without a paid shopping membership. Walmart Deals is offering what appears to be a wide selection of goodies to choose from that you could be looking for which Prime Day may not be offering. You’ll have to do a bit of exploring on your own, but as it stands, we can already tell there will be an abundance of great sales to sample when the Walmart Deals event goes live.
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NASA researchers combined years of data and new imaging techniques to learn more about a “tipped over” black hole that is moving in an unexpected way.
The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084. Researchers have been aware of the galaxy for years, NASA said in a news release.
New analysis techniques developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don’t have plumes, and when they do, only one or two are present. The plumes suggested the galaxy might house a supermassive black hole, NASA said. Spotting both pairs, which formed an “X” shape, led researchers to focus more on the area.
Using archived data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Telescope based in Chile, researchers found that the galaxy also had a “small, dusty inner disk” rotating at the center of the galaxy, again suggesting a black hole there. Even more surprisingly, both the disk and black hole were rotating at a 90-degree angle relative to the rest of the galaxy, meaning both features are essentially “lying on their sides,” NASA said.
NASA/STScI, M. A. Malkan, B. Boizelle, A.S. Borlaff. HST WFPC2, WFC3/IR/UVIS.
“It was like seeing a crime scene with multiple types of light,” said research scientist Alejandro Serrano Borlaff, who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. “Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has changed a lot in its recent past.”
It’s not clear what caused the change in the galaxy. It may have collided with another galaxy and formed a chimney of superheated gas, creating the X-shaped plasma plumes. Further research will have to be conducted to learn more about the circumstances.
“Detecting two pairs of X-ray plumes in one galaxy is exceptional,” said Pamela Marcum, an astrophysicist at Ames and co-author on the discovery, in the news release. “The combination of their unusual, cross-shaped structure and the ‘tipped-over,’ dusty disk gives us unique insights into this galaxy’s history.”
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