The Kmart Dupe Test: Anko stick vac vs Dyson V8

The $100-ish Kmart special against the benchmark. We don’t earn a cent if you buy the Anko — Kmart has no affiliate program — which makes this a good test of whether we’ll call it straight.

Criterion	Anko cordless stick (Kmart, in-store)	Dyson V8	Notes
Price	✓ Wins	—	Roughly a fifth of the money. That gap buys a lot of forgiveness.
Hard floors, small home	✓ Wins	—	For a flat with hard floors, the Anko genuinely does the job.
Carpets & pet hair	—	✓ Wins	The suction and head design gap shows immediately on pile.
Filtration	—	✓ Wins	Budget vacs exhaust finer dust back into the room — the invisible difference.
Longevity, battery & parts	—	✓ Wins	The Anko is effectively disposable; the Dyson is serviceable for years.
Criteria won	2	3	Counting isn’t deciding — read the verdict.

The verdict. Small flat, hard floors, tight budget: the Anko does most of the job for a fraction of the price, and we’ll say so even though it earns us nothing. Family home, carpets, pets or allergies: the V8 earns its price difference within a year or two of battery and filtration life.

Anko cordless stick (Kmart, in-store)

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Dyson V8

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