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Best Amazon Labor Day Deals (2026): Sony, Shark, Anker
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Amazon doesn't advertise its Labor Day sale as heavily as Prime Day and Black Friday, but the Amazon 2026 Labor Day Sale still offers some of the best deals of the year on an assortment of tech and home gear ranging from half off WIRED's previous top-pick wireless headphones, Sony's XM5 series ($198) to the best deal I've seen this year on WIRED's favorite laptop power bank, the EcoFlow Rapid Pro X ($180).
Amazon's deals are in heavy flux during the lead-up to Labor Day—and a number of my favorite grills and griddles have already sold out on Amazon, days before the actual holiday. You can find the latest trending and lightning deals at Amazon's Labor Day Sale page here. But in the meantime, these are the best dozen or so Amazon Labor Day deals right now.
Also see WIRED's best early Labor Day deals on tech gadgets, mattresses, tool sets, kitchen devices, and REI deals.
Sony's XM5 wireless headphones immediately became WIRED's favorite wireless headphones when they came out in 2022—a top-dog position they gave up only to last year's next-generation noise-canceling phones from Sony, the WH-1000XM6. The previous-model XM5's remain truly excellent headphones: light and comfortable, with great control, great noise canceling, and accomplished sound in pretty much every regard. They're also on sale for the lowest price we've ever seen them, during Amazon's Labor Day Sale.
This said, if you simply must have the best wireless headphones on earth, that's still the next-gen XM6, which also rank as the best noise-canceling headphones on earth, with exemplary sound, 30 hours of battery life, and seven times the processing power of the XM5s. They're on sale for $60 off MSRP during the Labor Day Sale. It's a sale we've seen before multiple times this past year, but still nearly the lowest price we've seen.
The Nothing Ear (3a) earbuds are a stylish answer to noise-canceling earbuds. Nothing's buds consistently rank among WIRED's honorable mentions for their excellent value and bold design. The newest offer call recording and audio transcriptions, and ease of pairing with iPhones and Android devices. The active noise cancellation is hardly the best in the game, but at $79 you won't easily find better: This is the lowest price we've seen since these earbuds drop to this summer.
WIRED's reviewer called the Sonos Arc Ultra a marvel of sound engineering when it arrived this year, a full update of the original Arc and an unmitigated triumph for Sonos: big bass, excellent clarity, and especially immersive Dolby Atmos sound. Sonos has also mostly cleared up the problems with its app in this update, thank God. This matches the best deal we've seen this year on Sonos' newest flagship soundbar.
The Amazon Echo Spot is a bit of a twofer. It takes some of the best smart-display features—like a clock and weather readouts—and pairs them with a decent-enough smart speaker, while leaving out the, uh, corporate video surveillance. No one needs a camera in their bedroom! Anyway, this is a pretty decent discount.
Never buy an AirTag at full price. The newest-gen AirTags remain the best Bluetooth tracker for anyone committed to Apple, and you'll somehow always have need of more. But luckily they always go on sale during Amazon sales events. This Labor Day deal matches the Prime Day price this year and is the best price in 2026 so far.
This is the best laptop power bank that WIRED reviewer Simon Hill has tested, barely edging out Anker's devices for its unusually rapid charging capability. Alongside 300W fast-charging, this EcoFlow also comes pretty close to the maximum allowed power bank capacity on an airplane. For Labor Day, it's on sale for the cheapest we've ever seen it.