hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video as you can see the sun is coming up but
it is right in my face i am here sourcing in idaho falls today if you're new to my channel
my name is nikki kirk and we're going to go sourcing doing retail arbitrage for amazon fba
although if i find some fbm stuff i'll let you know and i'll list it today i don't have
a whole lot of stores i'm going to hit up the fred meyer which i'm currently in the parking lot of
if you don't know what fred meyer is i describe it as like a little bit more expensive of a
walmart it's got everything it's like a kroger it literally is a kroger it's just a different name
and it's like meyer so if you have those stores in your area it's very similar to those
and yeah so then i'm gonna go to two walmarts a target tj maxx ross and then a carter's baby store
i'm also gonna go sourcing tomorrow to costco kohl's and hobby lobby um but that will be
different videos back to school is in full swing and there might also be some halloween stuff
it is august 11th i think today but i'll add here whatever date it really is i'm
just not really sure at the moment let's just be happy i even know that it's a weekday because
when you rv around you lose track of time anyways i'm gonna head into fred meyer and
see what i can find i've been to a fred meyer in about a month or two so yeah they have
good toys and i'm gonna go to the grocery items that's all i know for sure but i'll fill you in
i did pretty good in fred meyer i spent about 550 dollars total the first thing i did when i
walked in the door was i scanned all this special price stuff that's right in the middle there so
i scanned some of the nutrigrain bars which first tip always ask for approval because you just never
know i did not get approved in it and so you can see what it looks like it's saying you know you
need the invoice but it originally said you needed to get it in grocery and regardless if you're
ungated in grocery or not you should always just ask for approval it ended up being the brand that
was gated not grocery which does happen in the app from time to time it just says one thing
and it means another thing unfortunately then i scanned the kool-aid and tang area and tang
was sold out so i checked keepa to see what it was selling for it was selling for five
dollars so i'm just assuming that amazon's not gonna let me do it at a price high enough to
make it you know worth a profit of five dollars and the reason i'm saying that is because you know
how you get price alerts from time to time where they're like deactivating your item because they
think it's too high and in general like something that's pretty cheap like that if it won't really
let it go that high is just what i'm assuming so i left it here they have backpacks on sale backpacks
and lunchbox is actually all on sale for 30 off right now and so i scanned some of the backpacks
this one doesn't quite make my 50 roi but i did find some lunch boxes i shared one in the
bolo group now i did list the backpacks fbm right now so if they sell in the next couple of days i
will ship them myself instead of fba just because they're like really high priced right now and it
costs like three or four dollars to ship them i just put them in a polymailer and ship them
i've done it before so anyways if they don't sell i will just send them an fba but right now i did
that and the great thing about buy bot pro which i've been using more recently is that it tells
you the break even price so now i can make my skew up right in store and normally when i do fbm and
i list them in store i don't know the break even price so now i do so that's awesome here's some
hot tips as we roll into q4 so i got these caramel apples they don't quite make five dollar but
for the price a dollar sixty seven and the roi is pretty good so i mean all i have to do is put
a label on them so i went ahead and grabbed those and then sometimes you just have to rip open those
boxes to get the gold so if you didn't know candy corn is a hot seller so scan all of it and i just
grabbed the whole box of these i actually found a lot of candy that you can fba right now because
it's not meltable but if it is meltable like chocolate you cannot so these kit kats pumpkin
kitkats is an example of a meltable they're here at fred meyer kroger and you would just have to
obviously get them to the customer without melting because you have to fbm them right now you cannot
send them into the warehouse because too hot from there i headed over to the kitchen area and i
scanned some glassware and some coffee stuff just basically anything that had a cell took it i just
went ahead and scanned because like i said fred meyer is kind of high priced so not everything
will make the profit it's usually cheaper on amazon but if it's on sale you can find some
good stuff so i did find some k-cups and a lot of starbucks stuff if you need help getting ungated
in starbucks i can definitely help you out here is some examples of literally starbucks because
there's a starbucks in there so any starbucks might have these and the same as the kitchen
area so some of the stuff is really expensive in toys so i usually just scan whatever's on sale
and also if there's any clearance so i didn't actually find any toys now i'm gonna head over to
to walmart's back to back and the first one will take longer than the other one i think i'm good
on boxes but i might just pick some up anyways so i will fill you in on how i do at walmart
all together at the two walmarts i did about 350 or i spent 350 i started out in the back to school
at the first walmart and i scanned some backpacks there's not really a whole lot of backpacks at
walmart that come up anyways and some lunch boxes actually lunchbox i got in helena so
i grabbed six of them three of them already sold while i was in the store because i listed them
fbm so that means i put them up for sale and then when they sell i ship them myself
so three sold while i was in the first store before i even bought them and then when i was
in the second walmart one more sold so that's awesome i have two more of them left so probably
by the end of today they might both be sold then i went through the kitchen and the pharmacy stuff
i always kind of go through the kitchen quickly just because i don't i only really do it for you
guys i don't typically go through the kitchen stuff like for myself but it is new seller
friendly and there is stuff out there and then i went to the pharmacy area and here are these
rely on glucose tablets and i've actually been scanning them since my very first year
because they do make a profit sometimes so right now you can get them for a dollar each so six
dollars and they only make four dollars profit but i just thought i would share them because actually
that rank is good in health and beauty you can go pretty high in health and beauty category
just a reminder to scan everything not just stuff you need like i don't need men's depends but guess
what if you scan them they kind of sell so like this one i just wanted to show you as an example
it doesn't make quite five dollars definitely not the 50 roi but i bet you have not scanned depends
so diapers depends pads tampons all that kind of stuff i've been selling it off and on so i always
scan it at walmart because you can get good prices here if you ever see something like this it simply
means that it has never been sold fba so amazon does not know the measurements and the weight
so they don't know the fees so that's all that means you can still sell it you just would enter
the weight and the measurements when you get it home and list it and you kind of have to estimate
if it's going to make a profit or not because it's hard since you don't know the fees but
i went through the clearance but there really wasn't anything good there and then head over to
toys i did find some really good toys there is a new brand i've never heard of before it
looks like it's a new netflix show called gabby's wardrobe i think that's what the box said anyways
scabby something and it's definitely one to watch because while they don't make a big profit right
now like two dollars it is already selling above what it would be here at walmart plus it's got a
crazy rank so that must be a new show and here's a little fun fact if you've never worked retail
before this is a planogram they're doing their reset and i feel like i've been saying this for
months but they really are getting set for the holiday q4 season so that's why they have all
these papers up to tell the clerks where everything needs to go on shelf here's a
peppa pig bolo now while her rank is a little bit high like what i would typically do since
we are getting into q4 that's a perfectly fine toy rank i'll go up to 200 000 on toys sometimes
250 000 just depends how i'm feeling that day and what the return is but here's a peppa pig
ferris wheel for you and another tip as halloween gets closer be sure to scan all the stuff in the
toy aisle so there's dress-up stuff for kids year-round so dresses uh like these little glove
things there's masks all that kind of stuff is gonna be hot during halloween so definitely check
those out then at this second walmart i didn't do a whole lot i just really went to toys because
that's mostly what i got the first walmart but i did find a plush so this is just a reminder to
not be this price tanker because look at this it's selling for 21 by everyone else but then they are
taking the price so anyways i bought it because that seller's gonna sell out but don't be that
seller especially during q4 let's make some money people all right so now i'm gonna head over to tj
maxx because i really been missing good deals like shopping regular price stores is fine but
it's not as exciting because there's not as like crazy profits as much as you can find at tjmx
so here's the problem with filming in my car studio in the summer it's hot as heck and people
are running their cars outside and sometimes in the walmart parking lot there's music outside
and i can't use it because i don't have the copyright to the music anyway so it gets real
hot i'm rambling already but i'm just going to try and make this one quick because i'm sweating
so first dj max i went there and i got a skates a backpack so here is a couple that i found and
then i was going over to scan the socks because that's the next thing as you go around the store
so anyways the socks first of all there's these weird halloween pet and owner socks which is super
weird but there is a ton of adidas socks so here's an example so just go scan everything there was a
ton i mean a ton the most adidas socks i've ever seen probably because back to school who knows i
have not had any auto and getting luck today i've actually been denied like three or four times
asking for invoices right but that doesn't stop me i keep going so just if you get asked for invoice
just keep moving and scan the next thing there's halloween stuff starting to appear so i went ahead
and typed it in to you have to search you have to like take a photo of the front like scan like
the front you have to type it in you have to do a little bit more um and not all sellers do that so
if you do do it and you can find stuff then that works out i got some ray done stuff that i'm gonna
try and sell on mercury halloween stuff so we'll see how that goes so then on to ross ross actually
did not have a ton of backpacks but they had some good backpacks so here's a couple that i found at
ross uh last time i did a ross video everyone was commenting how like nice that clean that ross was
well let me tell you this one is like every other ross it's really dirty and a mess and
you have to dig through stuff but i did find some high-end beauty products so here's some examples
of what i found today this is your reminder to not sell luceta luceta whatever here's what it
looks like you did not hit the lottery they will issue you an ip complaint as soon as you list it
before the stuff gets to warehouse do not sell it how you can tell if they any brand is potential ip
is if the brand is the only one selling it that ore it's only one seller typically this always
happens in beauty and topical so that's your key giveaway it has only one seller and it's the brand
you did not hit the lottery you probably are gonna get an ip complete here is some nike baby stuff
it is too high of a rank but if you don't mind waiting it out it will probably sell so it makes
five dollars something here at ross and lastly all six of the lunchboxes that i got from walmart
sold so that's awesome i'll go get home and pack those up i'm gonna go to carter's and i'm going to
go to target i don't think i'll really fill you in on target but i will let you know how carter's go
um i am starting to drag been up since 5. all right off to carter's
so car drivers went as well as the last time i went there i didn't get anything so it's hit and
miss i scanned i was probably there for 20 minutes i scanned probably a hundred different labels
only a handful actually come up with a listing which is normal even when you're scanning them
at roster tj maxx and then of those they were all too high rank or didn't have a rank and if you as
you know i don't buy stuff if it doesn't have a rank and i definitely don't buy if it's like 200
000 in clothing so i passed on all of that stuff um if you want to go try carter's it's definitely
worth a try you don't spend a lot of time in there because it goes fast scanning all those labels but
i would recommend going to the clearance first because those have been around the longest
also they're cheaper the newer stuff usually isn't on amazon yet so that's just been my experience
anyways but if you want to try carter's it's worth a shot i am going to go to target i have some toys
i'm going to re-plan and then tomorrow i'm going to be going to costco hobby lobby and kohl's
but those i'm filming a different video for so you'll have to stay tuned for that or you might
have already seen them i don't know when they're gonna come out so anyways i will recap everything
even the stuff i get tomorrow at the end of this video though so i will see you back at the rv
okay so i got it all packed up i actually ended up going shopping two and a half days
technically for this week's shipment because i did the one day shopping then i went out the next day
to three other stores plus when i was going grocery shopping on another day i actually
came across some starbucks items so i had to do a whole other shipment so technically this is two
shipments the one big one and then that one of all the starbucks stuff i got the next day so anyways
here is how the whole breakdown went so the total shipment together both of them was 259 units
it cost me two thousand eight hundred and seventy eight dollars to buy it and then the profit
estimate for these two shipments is two thousand five hundred thirty six for eighty eight percent
roi now as a reminder this profit is an estimate because well some of the stuff has sold because
it's been a week since i went shopping but not all of it has sold and so prices change on amazon this
is what i'm estimating at the time i sent it in 88 roi because normally i'm like around 100 but
since it's a lot of clothing items the roi is a little lower since they are a higher price on the
upfront now this profit is after all the amazon fees and shipping and all of that this is the
profit extra money money made how i make my money selling on amazon okay so you can see here
the breakdown of categories most of my shipment was grocery 139 units for 960 dollars profit 38
of the total profit from the shipment was the grocery category then there was the clothing
stuff i got a lot of it from kohl's and then we've got beauty which i did really well with as well
office supplies most of these are like backpacks and school supplies because it is back to school
time and then i got a couple of kitchen items and just a few toys so if you need help getting
ungated and grocery you i have a guy that can help you my first q4 i actually got ungated in grocery
in october i placed the order in early november i got ungated and it was a game changer because
of all the grocery holiday themed things out there so if you need my help with q4 or to get on gating
or both i have all the different packages below on my website so you can click and grab the one
that is best for you if you need my help getting started selling on amazon i have the beginner fba
amazon training course which walks you through 14 lessons like over four hours of training no fluff
just straight down to it like my videos are so if you like my videos and you want help getting
started that is available as well thank you guys so much for watching i hope this video was helpful
and you learned a couple things and i will see you back here for another amazon selling video