The origin story
Recon was found as a baby in a store's returns bin, wedged between a waffle maker and a single left sneaker. Nobody knows how he got there. The store tried to process him as an open-box item, but he didn't have a receipt.
He grew up behind the stores, learning everything a young raccoon needs to know: which bins get emptied on Tuesdays, which stickers mean “marked down,” and which ones mean “marked down again.” He learned to read from clearance tags. His first word was “clearance.” His second was “more.”
Then one night he followed a trail of orange markdown stickers through an open back door and found the clearance aisle. Whole shelves of it. Under the lights. With prices. He sat down right there in the middle of the aisle and cried a little. Then he got organized.
These days Recon digs through sale pages instead of bins. It's cleaner, it smells better, and the thrill is exactly the same. He found a home at ScoreDeals, where his job is cheering on the good finds and mourning the ones that got away.
A quick note on who does what: Recon is our mascot. A real person checks every price at the store and writes every take on this site. Recon mostly supervises, eats snacks, and takes credit.
