The 25 things everyone was buying in July

These are the things our readers went nuts for last month. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. When the dog days of summer arrive and the temperature rises, prices across a ton of retailers tend to drop. There's also Prime Day of course, one of the biggest shopping holidays of the year, when Amazon slashes their prices across the board in an attempt to compete with Black Friday sales. Nordstrom happens to use a similar technique to get ahead of the end-of-summer sales curve with their massive Nordstrom Anniversary sale, which features discounts on a ton of fashion, beauty, and home products.