hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video my name is nikki kirk and today we are
going sourcing at ross so ross is really hit and miss for me sometimes i like going there
sometimes i don't like going there but usually whenever i find stuff it's for pretty good profit
especially toys during the holiday time ross always has really great price on toys so today
i'll be hitting up two rosses and just filling you in on how i source there as i go typically
my go-to spots are beauty first and then i'll go through the clothing the baby stuff and the toys
i don't always do the home although sometimes i have found really great seasonal items and it's
summer right now so they might have some really good seasonal items today i'm going to go through
the whole entire store including the cash wrap where you can find some good grocery type items
all right so i did pretty good for two hours 20 minutes i was in the checkout line for
like 10 minutes waiting for cashier but overall i think i did all right first step when i walked
in was the seasonal items so i went through and scanned all the different seasonal items
they had a bunch of goggles none of them came up so i scanned this float which did come up
and at this point in the season it's a little bit too high of a rank like it's not going to get
too much better anymore but it also had like a funky photo because it had two rings which were
different and this one box is only the one ring so i went ahead and went on to amazon to kind
of look at it and see like does it say you're only getting one or what does it look like and honestly
it wasn't much better there so i just went ahead and you know passed on it in general because it
also didn't make enough money but i wanted to point it out because that's one that even if it
did make enough money and the rank was good you have to question whether customers are going to
understand that they're only getting the one ring and generally i will look to to the reviews of the
product to see but there are no reviews on this one because it's probably a brand new item so
that's just something to consider you never want your customers confused or thinking they're gonna
get one thing and they get something else because that could lead to a bad review so after that i
headed over to the premium beauty which is where they have everything in those little tubs you know
so you don't shoplift them i guess it was funny because one of the things was 3.99 and i was like
okay so i went through and scanned all of them you kind of have to jiggle it around to like
get to the upc actually ross is a lot better than like marshalls where marshall's is like
really secure in there so you can't necessarily move it to get to the upc so sometimes you have
to scan the front like you're taking a photo of it to get it to come up or type it in and enter it
regardless you want to make sure that you're getting a box that looks clean and new and
it's kind of hard to tell but like you can see in this one it's all smashed up a little bit so
you want to make sure it's new even when you get up to the cash register
after they take it out of the box you can ask to look at it because you can say you're giving
it as a gift or whatever but you want to make sure that is nice and new looking and also that it's in
there because stranger things have happened where the product's not actually in the box but anyways
so i mean if you don't want to get it at the end of the day you don't have to get it even though
they've taken it out so don't feel bad about that you need it to look new since it's going to be
selling as new on amazon ross also puts these like big old stickers on products like way bigger than
the product actually is now sometimes it fits fine and it looks like you probably would prep
it at home anyways but sometimes it looks crazy so definitely i just pass on them if they look crazy
this example that i filmed for you is actually on clear wrap so you could probably take it off
easy enough but just something to consider because as always we want everything to be nice and new
you also need to check all your expiration dates for grocery and beauty and anything
that has an expiration date really so it has to be by amazon standards 90 days out for fba
i say 120 because you need to allow for room for it to transfer around warehouses and get
from you to amazon and if it gets to amazon and is expired guess what it's going to go
straight to stranded and you don't want that so definitely make sure it's far enough out
it should be far enough out so that the customer can actually use it before it expires also
also with all things beauty you want to make sure the seals are on so i always open everything and
double check so here you can see what the seal should look like and when i took this one off
i could actually smell it so it didn't make a profit i was just filming to show you the
seal but in general you want to make sure it's totally sealed just because it's on there doesn't
mean it's sealed so do a little like lift test and make sure it's sealed if you ever encounter
something like this where the barcode is over the upc honestly i used to just take a photo from the
front and you can still do that obviously i did that as well so i went through this burt's bees
just to show you all the different ways so i tried scanning the upc after i moved the barcode off
which is what i've started to do now because it's super annoying that they put it over there anyways
and yeah so you can peel it off a little bit if you want to or if it doesn't come up either
way you can go ahead and type it in and so when finally i typed it in it came up and so there's
that also when you're in the beauty area of frost you want to make sure to do all the hanging stuff
so this product lip balm does not make five dollars profit but i have sold this brand in
the past and there are ones out there that do make five dollars profit so i just wanted to show you
to you know encourage you to scan all the hanging stuff also and then don't forget
to ask for approval because you never know what you'll get approved in today i asked for approval
twice no three times and i got approved twice and one i didn't get approved so you always want to
ask because you just never know if you go through and ask for approval and it doesn't automatically
like work again just close your app reskin the item and you should be able to sell it now
now at ross you cannot do shoes because they do not come in the box and you have to have the box
even the hanging shoes if they have them they don't have the tags on them they're really weird
here at ross with some stuff so anyways you can't sell shoes you can sell clothing though
so i went through the kids and baby clothing scanning scanning scanning if you can sell the
premium brands like nike adidas and under armour definitely scan all that stuff they have some
great deals here here's a couple that i found if you want help getting them gated i do have guides
for that i have the premium guide the topical beauty guide as well as the grocery guide so all
of which are very helpful at ross because there's a lot of categories there's all the different
categories here so anyways yeah definitely scan that i found some carter's baby clothes
you want to scan any of the brands that are like name brands even some that are not name brands now
i don't know maybe they are name brands and i just don't have kids or have kids in my life so i
don't know if they are but i just scanned all the different stuff you will skin a lot and it won't
come up and clothing just keeps getting anyways move on to the next one that is very typical like
i would say probably only thirty percent actually came up with a listing but it's pretty easy and
you just go through the hang tag skates again scan scan scan back stand back scan back scan just keep
going also you should scan through the bras and underwear it's strange i know but they are
on there and some of them sell for quite a lot so definitely scan through there you won't regret it
and then of course scan all the toys i scan all the name brand toys it's just something
you learn after doing it for a while i know like this one is probably not on there and this one
is so just scan all the toys i found a couple today if you are a new seller you want to scan
through all the arts and craft supplies now i didn't find any today that made any profit but
usually i can find some at ross so that's definitely another one worth going to
also the kitchen stuff so you can sell kitchen and home category you will however find some brands
that you cannot sell like i cannot sell kitchenaid so i also found out today i can't sell oxo
so just scan anyway so if you can't scan it don't just stop because you found one you can't sell
keep scanning everything so here's something i found in the kitchen aisle this cutie little
teapot now you'd probably need a box for it because it didn't have box on the shelf it's
just in the teapot and then lastly don't forget to scan through the cash wrap if you're like me
and was sitting there for 10 minutes waiting for the cashier i just went ahead and scanned
so these ginger candies they don't quite make five dollar profit they only cost 350 though
and i got auto approved so maybe that's an auto approval for you on that one
um they had quite a few of them here and lastly ross does not accept tax exempt now every once
in a while you might be able to get it to work you can ask every time bring your tax exempt sales tax
license into the store slam it down and say this is a tax exempt purchase and just see what happens
i'll probably tell you sorry we don't do that but you never know so i might go to another boss i'm
not sure i'm kind of running out of time today but i just wanted to fill you in on how to source ross
now i'm going to see what all my profit did and so i'll catch you back for a recap in a little bit
okay so i didn't end up going to another ross because the day kind of got away from
me altogether i was sourcing at that ross for two hours and 20 minutes and i will say that filming
and i take notes on what i want to tell you about what i found and all that so if i wasn't filming
that day it probably would have been an hour and a half total in that store an hour an hour
and a half so this is everything that i found from that sourcing time at ross so i got 19
items all together cost 225 dollars for estimated profit of 190 so just under 200 profit for 85 roi
which is return on investment so i spent 225 i'm making 85 return on that 200 which is 192 dollars
just in case you're wondering what that is i got some beauty items from clothing items toys and
home so all together the beauty items i did pretty good i mean they're not the best roi but it is
you know bigger cost and bigger reward there for profit wise i found four of this one
clothing this was a mix of the under armor adidas nike and some baby items from carter's
so i got eight items all together in the clothing and then i found one toy and one home item which i
showed you so shopping at ross is pretty much always like this i wouldn't say i
leave with cart fulls which is great because they don't let you take the cart out of ross but
i do leave with some stuff you know it's a decent amount it's usually two or three bags toys during
the holiday time are always really great because they are cheaper at ross so i'd highly recommend
if you are ungated in toys sourcing at ross and if you are not ungated than toys i definitely can
help you out with my ungaining guide and q4s coming so it's a great time to start getting
ungated i hope this sourcing video was helpful i definitely like making sourcing videos so i
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