The Google Nest Mini is on sale for almost half off at Walmart
SAVE $24.02: The second-gen Google Nest Mini is on sale at Walmart for just $24.98 as of Oct. 5. It usually retails for $49, so this deal saves you a solid 49%.
As Amazon rolls out some "Black Friday-worthy deals" earlier than ever before, we've heard very little about the matter from one of its closest retail rivals: Walmart. The big box store has really only confirmed that its stores will be closed for in-person shoppers on Thanksgiving, while a "Black Friday 2021" landing page on its website encourages deal-hungry early birds to "Check back later." Womp womp.
If we absolutely had to guess, Walmart's holiday offers will probably look something like its current markdown on the second-gen Google Nest Mini. As of Oct. 5, the popular little smart speaker from 2019 was on sale there for just $24.98 — that's a whole 49% off its suggested retail price of $49.
Elsewhere, we found it going for a whole cent more ($24.99) at Best Buy, Target, and Kohl's. Amazon hasn't sold Google Nest products since 2018, so don't bother looking there.
If anything, the Nest Mini may get $5 cheaper and drop to last year's Black Friday price of $18.98, but waiting for that discount requires betting against it selling out. (That's a legit possibility given the supply chain issues currently affecting smart speakers and other gadgets, unfortunately.)
As a quick refresher, the Nest Mini is the follow-up to Google's original Home Mini from 2018. (Google merged its Home and Nest brands a few months before the former came out.) It packs some newer proprietary audio tuning software for twice the bass and fuller, more natural sound, along with an improved-upon Google Assistant; a dedicated machine learning chip brings faster response times, while a built-in dynamic audio function can now adjust the volume based on any background noise.
Choose from four colors: Chalk, Charcoal, Coral, or Sky. (Fun fact: The latter was inspired by Italy's Lake Como, says Google. Snazzy.)
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Haley Henschel is a Chicago-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable who reviews and finds deals on popular tech, from laptops to gaming consoles and VPNs. She has years of experience covering shopping holidays and can tell you what’s actually worth buying on Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day. Her work has also explored the driving forces behind digital trends within the shopping sphere, from dupes to 12-foot skeletons.
