The short answer
Clearance is not one thing, and the difference is measurable. Kohl's states a discount percentage on about four out of five of its offers. Target states one on none of them, across more than seven hundred offers. Nike states none either. Walmart sits in the middle, and it is the most practical of the five to compare, because it is both large and reasonably well labelled.
None of this makes any of these retailers dishonest. It means the word on the banner is doing different work at each one, so the way you check a price has to change with it.
What we are actually measuring
Everything below is counted from the offers Gazoobie held as active on 11 September 2026, using the same definition our own store pages use. Click any store link in this article and the number you land on should match.
Read this before the numbers
These figures describe the offer data we receive. They do not describe everything a retailer has marked down in its stores or on its own website. When we say Nike states no percentage, we mean no percentage arrives in the offer data. Nike's website obviously shows prices. The distinction matters, because that feed is what price comparison tools, deal sites and browser extensions are all working from. When it carries no number, every one of those tools is inferring rather than reporting. Ours included.
We have also not tracked these retailers' prices over time. Our price record began on 7 August 2026, nowhere near long enough to tell you whether a clearance price is genuinely low against that store's own history. When it is long enough, we will say so. We are not going to claim it before then.
The five at a glance
| Store | Offers we hold | Share stating a discount | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target | about 729 | none | 1 |
| Macy's | about 654 | 1 in 4 | 11 |
| Walmart | about 510 | 4 in 10 | 11 |
| Nike | about 156 | none | 3 |
| Kohl's | about 84 | 4 in 5 | 10 |
Two things jump out of that table. The retailer with the most offers tells you the least about them. The retailer with the fewest tells you the most.
Target: the biggest pool, and no labels on it
Around 729 offers were live here on 11 September 2026, more than any of the other four. Not one of them arrived with a stated discount percentage, and our category mapping resolves the whole lot into a single category, where Walmart and Macy's each spread across eleven.
One small oddity is worth recording. This is the only store of the five where codes show up at all, seventeen of them, against zero at Walmart, Nike and Kohl's. That is a minor detail by itself, but structural differences like it do not change week to week, which makes them more useful than any individual offer.
The practical effect of no labelling is that category filters, ours included, are close to useless on this inventory, and no comparison tool can rank the depth of a reduction it was never given a number for. You will get further browsing Target's own departments and bringing specific items back to compare. See what we hold on the Target store page.
We would rather say that than quietly show you one slice of the inventory and present it as a considered selection. That would look more capable. It would be less useful.
Kohl's: the most labelled, and the smallest pool
This is Target's mirror image. Only about 84 active offers, the fewest of the five by a distance, but 67 of them state a discount percentage, roughly four in five, averaging 38 percent. It spreads across ten categories despite that small number.
So you get the most to work with per offer and the least to choose from. If you already know what you want, the labelling is genuinely valuable: there is a stated number, you can take the same item to another seller, and you can see whether the result actually wins. If you are browsing for whatever happens to be cheap, eighty-odd offers will not hold you long.
Worth knowing
Kohl's has a long-standing reputation for code-driven pricing, and shoppers often arrive expecting to hunt for one. In the offers we currently hold, none require a code. That does not mean codes never exist at Kohl's. It means the discounts reaching us are already in the price, so the number you see is the number you compare.
Current holdings are on the Kohl's store page.
Walmart: the one you can actually work with
The practical middle of this group is also, for comparison shopping, the most useful place to be. We hold around 510 active offers here, of which 217 state a discount percentage, about four in ten, averaging 39 percent, spread across eleven of our twelve categories.
A stated percentage is not proof of a good price. It tells you what the retailer says the reduction is against its own reference price, and the retailer sets that reference. What it gives you is a starting point you can test. Take a stated 39 percent, find the same item elsewhere, and see whether the resulting number actually wins. With an offer that states nothing, there is no starting point at all, only the product page.
Enough volume to browse, enough labelling to compare, and breadth across nearly every category is a rarer combination than it sounds. The Walmart store page shows what we are holding.
Macy's: the widest spread, and the fastest turnover
Breadth is the story here. About 654 active offers across eleven categories, with 175 of them stating a percentage, roughly one in four, averaging 38 percent.
The distinctive thing is not the current count but the churn behind it. Our record holds 8,297 offers from this retailer that have already ended. No other store here is remotely close. A specific promotion at Macy's is a short-lived thing, while the general state of being discounted is close to permanent.
That flips the usual advice. Waiting for the sale is the wrong instinct, because there is essentially always one running, and the one in front of you will more likely be replaced than deepened. The useful question is whether this item at this price is worth it today. Current offers are on the Macy's store page.
Nike: no signal at all
Of the five, this is the hardest to judge from the outside. Around 156 active offers, not one stating a discount percentage and not one requiring a code, concentrated into three categories. The offers are real. The data carries nothing about how deep any reduction goes.
That is a defensible way for a brand to run. Nike controls its pricing tightly and does not operate a code culture, which is part of why its products hold their value. The consequence for shoppers is simply that no deal site, extension or comparison tool can tell you whether a Nike clearance price is a good one, because none of them are being given the number. Anyone ranking Nike discounts by depth is guessing.
So the comparison has to happen on the product itself: the specific model and colourway, against the same one at an authorised retailer. Our Nike store page shows what we hold, and we will not pretend to rank the depth of it.
How to read any clearance page
Check whether a number is stated anywhere
If a percentage is given, you have something to test against another seller. If none is, no tool can tell you the depth, so plan to check the item yourself.
Find out whether a code is involved
Where a code is required, the shelf price is not the price, and nothing can be compared until it is applied. Among these five that is rare, but it is the first thing that would change the answer.
Ask how often this retailer discounts
Where a store is nearly always running a sale, waiting for one is not a strategy. Judge the item and the price in front of you instead.
Compare the exact model, not the category
Percentages are calculated against a reference price the retailer chooses. The only reliable check is the same item, at the same specification, from another seller.
Common questions
Which of these five has the best clearance?
We will not rank them, because the honest answer depends on what you are buying. What we can say is which is easiest to judge. Kohl's states a discount on about four offers in five, and Walmart on about four in ten with far more inventory behind it. Target and Nike state none at all. Easiest to judge is not the same as cheapest.
Does a bigger percentage mean a better deal?
Not on its own. A percentage is calculated against a reference price the retailer chooses, so 60 percent off one retailer's reference can cost more than 25 percent off another's. Treat it as a starting point for comparison, not a conclusion.
Why does Target have the most offers but the least information?
Those are two separate things. The number of offers reflects how much a retailer pushes into the affiliate feeds we ingest. Whether an offer carries a stated percentage or a category label is a separate choice about how much detail travels with it. Target sends a lot of offers with very little attached.
Are these numbers going to stay accurate?
The counts are a snapshot from 11 September 2026, and offer feeds move daily, so treat them as the shape of each retailer rather than a live figure. The structural differences are the stable part: Target's volume without labels, Kohl's small but well-labelled pool, Nike's silence on depth. Those are what is worth remembering.
See how we score an offer
Every number on this page comes from the same data that decides which offers reach the board. The method, including what we refuse to claim and why, is published in full.
How we verify deals
