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The best Labor Day deals you can still get

An Echo Show smart display on a wooden table with a wooden bass in the background.
You can still get a free smart color bulb when you buy the Echo Show 8 on sale for $104.99. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

It’s always sad when a three-day weekend ends, especially when it also marks the unofficial end of summer. On the bright side, many Labor Day deals are lingering, which means you still have an opportunity to save on a slew of goods before the holiday shopping season kicks off in earnest.

Although a few Labor Day deals have since disappeared, we’re still seeing steep discounts on a range of tech, some of which rival the Prime Day deals we saw in July. Right now, for instance, Apple’s 9th-gen iPad is on sale for less than $200. Other Verge-approved items have also fallen to an all-time low (or close to it), including the Sonos Roam 2, Amazon’s latest Echo Spot and the entry-level Kindle.

Granted, we’ve seen many of these products go for…

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