This segment is sponsored by Microsoft.
Today we are seeing the highest
inflation in over 30 years.
And with the holiday shopping
season basically here,
everyone's looking for a deal, right?
So to help us save some money this
holiday shopping season is YouTube
host and creator Jacques Slade,
AKA Cousteau Jacques,
so good to have you.
Thank you for having
me. I bet you're excited about
the holiday shopping season.
I am always excited about shopping,
just I think just like
everybody else to be honest,
I I think so and I know there will
probably be a lot of online shopping
as we've seen it grow year after year.
How can we save money online shopping?
What are some of your biggest things
to look for this holiday season?
Some of the biggest things that I look
for are things that seem pretty obvious,
but sometimes we overlook them.
The first one is price comparisons.
We we don't often look
around for prices of things.
We often get into our routine.
You know, we get home from work,
we sit on the couch, we turn on the TV.
If we need to buy something, we do it.
We don't really think about it.
But with price comparison shopping,
it'll let us know that there's a lot of
different places where we can buy that item,
and oftentimes we can get
it for a better price.
And then the other thing is coupons.
I know it's like this.
Age-old thing and we seem
to forget about it a lot.
But we don't have to clip them
out of newspapers anymore.
They're available digitally now.
And the way that I personally like to do
it is through the Microsoft Edge browser.
They have a shopping feature in the
sidebar that really does all of this
for you so you don't actually have
to physically go looking around.
The browser does it all for you.
Oh wow. OK, because I've done
those where you go on sites and
find coupon codes and then you
copy and paste and it never works.
The coupon code never works.
So this will do it help you out there.
Yeah, the beauty of the browser
is that it does all that for you.
It actually tests out the
coupons for you and make sure
you're getting the best deal.
I mean it's a no brainer, OK.
What what trends are you seeing when it
comes to holiday shopping this year?
For holiday shopping,
I think with the economy being
in the state that it's in,
something that we're going to
see a lot of is the DIY person.
So this is the person that's doing
a few things around the house.
The economy is kind of down.
You don't, you can't hire someone
to do something in the yard or maybe
clean something up in the house.
We're going to be doing a lot
of those things yourself.
And so the DIY items like drills
or maybe a screwdriver or a
wrench or something from the
front yard or rake a shovel,
so things like that, that get you out.
And doing some things
yourself around the house.
I think those are gonna be really big items.
I myself change the brakes on my car,
you know, there was a tutorial online.
I followed it, bought the brakes,
did some shopping, shopping around,
and got the tools that I needed.
And it's a little point.
It's a point of pride for me now.
Like I I tell my wife that
I changed my own brakes.
She doesn't care,
but I feel really good about it.
Kudos
to you. I could barely even just like,
fill the washer fluid without
it falling out everywhere.
Or change a tire?
Change tire? What about tech?
We all love a good check.
What's hot this year? Yeah, tech
is booming right now and when
I like to think of tech,
I like to think of a way that we
can enhance our own experience.
And one of those ways is through headphones.
We watch a lot of stuff on our phones.
We listen to a lot of music on our phones.
Basically, our phones are for
almost everything these days.
And one way we can elevate that experience
is with really great headphones.
There's noise canceling headphones that
help cancel out the world around us.
They have bigger drivers,
so the sound sounds better.
The bass is more boomy,
the highs are sharper,
so headphones is a big.
Thing that we need to be looking
forward into tech.
And the other thing is exercise.
I think we're all getting out
there trying to lose a little bit
of the weight that we all kind
of gained during the pandemic.
And one way you can do that
is through like smartwatches.
They help you track how far you run,
the calories you've burned,
how much you've been walking around
and exercising during the day.
So I think those are two main things
that really help us be better about
ourselves in the tech world today.
All right, Jack, I have two teen girls,
and I feel like every year for Christmas
they want the hottest new sneaker.
Of the year, and of course it's usually
sold out. I gotta keep searching.
So what am I gonna be asked for this year?
Well, you know, the beauty beautiful
thing about sneakers is there's so many of
them and they really fit our personality.
So if you have young kids like I do,
I have kids that are in college and
they're always looking for sneakers,
are always looking for accessories
for school, is really finding things
that match their personality.
Sneakers are a really great way
to kind of express who you are.
We're seeing them more and more.
We're seeing them everywhere.
We're seeing anchors on the
news where sneakers,
we're seeing CEO's wearing sneakers
and it really fits their personality.
So if you have two young girls.
Do a little investigating on their
personalities and I'm sure you
can find something online that
matches the personality.
It may not be the thing that's sold out,
but there's tons of great sneakers
outside of the sold out hype world and
I think the kids will really enjoy.
Thanks so much, happy shopping this season.
Thanks for having me.
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