Shoppers bag new iPhones for $10 & $1 Apple Watches with ‘pot luck’ shopping trend
Shoppers bag new iPhones for $10 & $1 Apple Watches with ‘pot luck’ shopping trend
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Publish Date: 2026-02-07 14:07:00
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SHOPPERS are flocking to a new bargain craze where the best finds are pure luck, and the prices can be wild.
Fans say it’s like digging through a treasure pile, with no clue what you’ll pull out next.
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Houston shoppers are packing “bin stores” where returned goods are dumped into tablesCredit: YouTube/KHOU 11
Inside warehouses shoppers swarm giant tables of random goods to find major deals (stock)Credit: Getty
Bin stores are taking over the area, drawing crowds hunting for rock-bottom deals on everything from clothes to electronics.
Inside stores like Black Friday Deals, shoppers swarm giant tables of random goods and grab what they can before it’s gone.
“It’s like Christmas every day, every Friday,” shopper Shirley Smith told CBS affiliate KHOU11.
“You need muscles,” she joked, describing the scramble.
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Store manager Abdullah Jbarra said the chaos is part of the draw.
“We open over 4,000 boxes a day,” Jbarra said. “We never know what’s in the products. We open the pallets and throw them straight into the bins.”
Bin stores buy pallets of returned merchandise from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target.
The goods get dumped into bins and sold at flat prices, no matter what the item is.
At Black Friday Deals, there are 120 bins across the store.
On Fridays, everything…