hi and welcome back to rainey oregon my name is nikki kirk and today we are going sourcing for
amazon doing retail arbitrage today should be a quick trip i have two grocery outlets one walmart
one marshalls and one ross and i might also go to winco i am undecided but we'll see when i'm
over there it has been a few weeks since i've been outsourcing and i'm really excited because
over the next two weeks that i'm here in oregon i will be going sourcing four times which normally
if you follow my channel i only go once a week i go sourcing once a week and then i pack it up and
then that's it so that's why you'll always hear me say that i do this part-time because i'm doing
part-time hours however i am earning a full-time income anyway so the last couple weeks we were in
lone rock which is in page arizona which there is nothing except for a walmart which i did go scan
but i didn't get anything and then we went to moab utah which again nothing they're like touristy
areas where you're really going for a purpose so we were going to national parks or lake powell and
anyway so moab doesn't have anything either except for a tiny little kroger but i did scan there and
didn't find anything so anyways all that to say that there are months throughout the year where
i take time off like last time and i think it was like 2018 we were also in paige arizona because
we love it there and i didn't scan for about a month and your sales do kind of suffer but that's
okay because i'm just trying to live my best life and you know sometimes you got to take time off
it's good for your mental health anyways so today i'm going out to grocery outlet first and i'm
really excited i love grocery outlets i always find a lot of stuff so knock on wood hopefully
i actually find a lot of stuff today whenever i go to grocery outlet i head first to their health and
beauty aisle and that takes quite a while and i love scanning it and then i also scan all the like
dry non-perishable aisles i don't scan the heavy items like the juices and canned stuff although
you can totally sell those if you are willing to prep and pay the extra shipping on them so
definitely scan everything if you want to but i just don't scan those heavy things but i do scan
the entire store it feels like obviously not the frozen or like fresh items
but anyways so i'm gonna head out to grocery outlet and as always i will
fill you in on the day as it goes along i have no idea how it's gonna go but let's head out
so i did pretty good in there i spent about 600 and i mostly just
got beauty i don't actually think i got any grocery products i did get one pet product
but other than that it was pretty much in that beauty aisle which took me two hours to scan
i scanned everything hundreds of items and i probably only got 15 different things so just
know that if you feel like you're scanning a lot and you're not finding anything in the beginning
you're still going to be doing that later on only you will be finding a couple set
things but honestly if you think about it the amount of time i took to scan and i found like
15 products on the high end probably it doesn't feel like a lot but let me tell you when we get
home and add up all that profit it's gonna be worth it as i mentioned in every video you have
to ask for approval just because it says you can't sell it doesn't mean you can't sell it
go ahead and click through and ask for approval if you do get approved like i did on this one
you might have to close your app out to have it register again so you'll rescan it and then now
you can sell it sometimes you might be wondering what this looks like this just means that it was
sold out so because it was sold out i went ahead and checked keepa to see what it was selling for
and then after that i said okay let me look for another listing which has all the profit and fees
like not sold out and then i used that one which was not going to be the listing i was gonna sell
it on but i used that one to estimate the profit to know if it was worth it and it wasn't really
worth it so i left it here this one is a great example of you can't just match the buy box if
you're in your manage inventory going through your pricing and you're like oh it's a lower
seller i'll just match it because i want to move my product don't because you are going to lose out
on so much profit and i was looking at this going this is really weird that it's only five dollars
and then look it's an amazon warehouse deal and someone else matched to fbm but that is why you
cannot just match the buy box you want to be at a normal price so some people are telling people to
you know quick flip and go up under the buy box undercut it that is not the way to do amazon if
you're trying to build a sustainable profitable amazon selling business those quick flip things
don't make a profit in the long run and you are just going to lose money and get frustrated and
quit or just be like this doesn't work everyone's lying to me it's how you do your business
you can be within five percent of the buy box meaning up above and still get the buy box so
do not just match it don't think you have to undercut it to get the sell your stuff will sell
here's your friendly reminder to not buy luesta lucera luesta that's like a vitamin or pill or
something lucetta i don't know how you say it whatever it is this is what it looks like don't
buy it you did not win the lottery they will hit you with a counterfeit complaint probably
while your stuff is being sent in if you have it in there right now close your listing delete it
it'll go to stranded and then you can ask for it back or you can just create a removal order and
then ask for it back but honestly i would just get rid of the listing as soon as possible and
ask for it back right now i'm just going to flash some of the items that i found obviously i'm going
to cover them because you know i want to be able to sell them so here are some of the profitable
items i found when something looks too good to be true i checked keepa so i checked keepa on a
product and because it did seem too good to be true and it was like no amazon has never sold
it the price is always steady so i cleared the shelf on it now here's a couple freebies for you
one is that the rank is too high for me but it's here at grocery outlet if you want to grab it
and here's an igloo cooler amazon selling it but honestly the rank's pretty good so it's
here at grocery outlet if you want to come grab it really quickly i just want to address why i don't
actually show you what i'm buying because i found a great example i shared not that long ago that i
was buying these milly tees and they were making they were costing 4.99 they're actually 5.99 now
but they cost 4.99 and they were making five like just over five dollars like 501 or something but
it was a great flip i bought all that they had i found them again today now that i'm back in oregon
did not expect to find them again and you guys the price is like eight and nine dollars
i don't know if that's because i showed them on a video or just that the market is over saturated
but they were here before and they were selling so i don't know that's not a chance i want to take
that is why i don't show stuff here i did not expect to see them again which is why i shared
and i share them to show like what's possible i'm not sharing for you to go get them although
if you can find them you should go get them back when they were making money but i'm sharing them
because i want you to know that this is a possible business you can make this work so it's like
inspiration when i share stuff that i used to sell in the past if i hadn't shared it i probably could
have cleared the shelf because it probably still would have been fifteen dollars you never know
there's so many sellers on them right now it's kind of crazy but i just wanted to share why i
don't show you everything that i'm buying i do share stuff in the boba group all the time so if
you want to join the bolo group and see what i'm and other sellers are selling you can go ahead
and join but for the most part that's why i don't share it because now it's not making any money but
anyways i do actually sell to make money on amazon that's how i made my living and that's
why i make these videos to help change your guys's life if you want it i'm kind of rambling on that
so i'm gonna head over to the walmart now and see what we can find yeah i'll see you there
okay so i didn't actually get a whole lot at walmart it is like they're gonna start
doing the holiday reset so plus this is a smaller walmart i mean it only has one door
if you know what that means so i didn't get a whole lot which is funny because
after christmas last year or this year this store was really good to me i had overflowing carts so
everything ebbs and flows it changes with the season so you're not finding anything
we are in the midst of the summer slowdown but back to school and q4 is coming so keep
at it but i got a couple toys a kitchen item and some grocery items outdoor barbecue
hint type items so yeah that was all i got i'm gonna head over to marshall's and ross and then
luckily i have one more grocery outlet it's really fun to bookend your trip so if there's a lull in
the middle i'll just head over to grocery outlet and hopefully find some more stuff
my
okay so at marshall's i got a couple of high ticket beauty items as well as a ton of adidas
women's and men's stuff actually and then i got some boys items that were on clearance that were
also adidas so here's a couple screen grabs blurred of course because i have been sourcing
these for a while and i want to keep sourcing them and it's kind of crazy so if you didn't
know adidas and adidas original are two different things the flowery symbol is adidas original and
adidas is the normal three stripe pyramid looking one when anyone asks like which should you get
ungated in i honestly just say like they're kind of even you'll see a lot of adidas original and a
lot of adidas i'm leaning towards adidas regular but if you're gonna get engaged you can actually
if you grab my guide you just get both items and you find the cheapest thing possible to order
ten of and then that can get you ungated so as always all my ungating guides are below
today it's been a lot of beauty topical type stuff and now a lot of adidas at marshalls at ross
so lucetta or whatever is everywhere okay they had it at marshalls and they have it at ross so here
it is that ross don't buy it just your friendly reminder if you're still watching don't buy it
they had a lot of backpacks at ross so back to school is starting already so definitely
take the time and scan all the backpacks again you'll find a lot of nikes and adidas but also
a lot of jansport and you know kids backpacks all the different character brands scan them all
sometimes you have to scan the front like you're taking a photo because the upc doesn't come up and
last thing at ross here's a freebie for you it's a baby item it doesn't quite make five dollars so
i thought i would just share it for you for all of those who don't really care about the five dollar
roll if you're wondering why i have my five dollar rule it's because if that price starts to go down
more and then more and more and more now my buffer is getting lower and lower and i don't want to
lose money so that's why i do the five dollar it gives me room in case the price does go down
all right i'm going to head to grocery outlet scan anything new and look for all the stuff
that i got at the first grocery outlet and then that's it for today so i've gotten a
decent amount it's not totally full back there so we'll see what happens at the next grocery outlet
that was the last grocery outlet i got a couple of hot items that i was on the
lookout for i found actually a lot more of them at this one than i did the last one
and other than that i didn't get a whole lot here only two grocery bags i think i spent 200
um i could have done a lot of fbm chocolate stuff but i just didn't want to deal with it
right now i'm just too many stuff going on i don't want to have to ship stuff out and then
also worry about it melting because it was like literally chocolate chocolate like it's not like
maybe it won't really melt it'll probably melt so anyways so if you want to do that it there's
a lot of stuff out there meltable right now that's profitable but i just don't want to deal with it
so now i'm going to head back to the rv and i will tally it all up and let you know how it went
okay so i got it all packed up and here's how the profit shook out overall i spent 2 700 on
cost of goods and i profited estimated profit you know if it sells at what the buy box is and
we all know if you saw on amazon it's probably not some might sell for more and usually you
might make a little less profit but that is why i do my five dollar buffer so that i know that
i'll make enough profit so at the current buy box at the time i sent it it's an estimated profit of
three thousand dollars for 111 roi now the thing that always happens whenever i do these videos
is that people are like so you really only made 300 because they're just taking the cost
and the profit and doing the math but that is not how this spreadsheet works so this profit
is the profit i'm making after the cost of goods is made back after i make that money
back it's after any amazon fees and the shipping fees so that's just something to
understand if you understand profit that's how it works it's the money you're making left over
it's actual money in my pocket money you're paying yourself profit so i went ahead and sorted them
by the highest profit so this marshall's beauty item i found two of cost me 27.99 and it makes 24
so that was my most profitable item and you see here i've got some other 20 ones some that are
clothing items from marshall these are all high profit and i'll just tell you right now they're
all adidas clothing items so if you need help in gating i have the premium guide which will
help you with adidas but that's what these are at grocery outlet i found a lot of pet supplies and
you'll see over here pet supplies was pretty good in general my best categories this sourcing trip
were beauty 118 units for 971 dollars of profit 32 percent of my total shipment pet supplies and home
if you are a new seller you are not gated in those categories so definitely something to check out
and i did a pretty decent 700 profit 500 in profit and then there was the clothing like i said it was
all adidas a couple health items toys just found eight of them this trip and then grocery only 47
of profit grocery is hit and miss as is toys so for me this trip it wasn't really grocery or toy
heavy it comes and goes some shipments are all grocery and toy focused and some are obviously
this time was beauty here's a store breakdown of where i went so i had grocery outlet 201
units lows 55 units almost 500 of profit found at lowe's that was the home stuff you're seeing there
marshall's 40 units and then walmart 18 units didn't actually find a whole lot at walmart
now i don't think people watch the whole video so i'm just going to let you in on a little hint
i thought i'd do a little easter egg video i actually showed you
almost every product i bought in the video so if you want to go watch again i actually filmed
all the products on shelf that i was buying so anyways i hope this video was fun and helpful
let me know if you watched to the end and thank you guys so much for watching if you
need help on gating want to take my course or want to join the bolo group to help you source
all that is available or if not i'll just see you back here for another amazon selling video
you