hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video my name is nikki kirk and today i'm taking
you sourcing doing retail arbitrage at costco so i've been selling on amazon for four years now
and i actually do source at costco quite often or whenever one is around one because i personally
just love costco and two because sometimes you can find some really great deals so what i know
about costco is that i can personally just walk around up and down every single aisle so
it doesn't bother me to be in there a long time but around christmas time or probably actually
maybe in september they'll actually put out their ribbons
they're like the ribbon for crafting or whatever it's a whole huge palette of them
and some of them sell for a lot of money so that is something to look out for the other
thing i do is i scan like the snack area you know like the bars and all that kind of stuff
a lot of the stuff you're gonna find doesn't totally make enough profit like it'll be like
three dollars two dollars whatever here and there and i do stick to my five dollar minimum profit
rule because should the price drop because costco is kind of readily available if it starts to drop
you don't want to lose out and be actually losing money so that's why i have a five dollar buffer
that's my five dollar minimum rule the beauty items also will have stuff the clothing and
there's also shoes so there's like adult shoes kids shoes like adidas all kinds of stuff in
there so i'm gonna head in and see what we can find and as always i will recap you at the end
i actually did pretty dang good in there i spent 850 dollars
and mccart didn't totally fill up but i found quite a few great things
so the first thing when you walk in is obviously the electronics and they pretty much pass those
over you can scan them if you want to um i'm just assuming most of them are restricted or that
they could possibly have ip complaints i just didn't even want to deal with it so anyways i
skipped that over then i went to the snack foods i scanned all the jerky which leads me to my first
point when scanning stuff at costco a lot of the stuff is gonna make a dollar to like i mentioned
and if you just scan the upc it won't come up necessarily but if you go ahead and you scan the
front like you're taking a photo or you type it in you can get bundle listings and bundle listings
can be where the money is at costco so the first items i scanned were jerky and i did find some
that make a profit here it is then there's also a lot of chocolate actually that makes a profit
but it's still multiple season i mean it's hot as heck right now in this truck i'm dying but
everything is gonna melt and honestly i just don't have the time or want to deal with it but if you
want to mail it you can do the flat rate boxes if it's heavier than a pound it's like eight dollars
if you can fit it in one of those smaller flat rate boxes or an envelope and then you it'll get
there faster so there's less likely that it will melt and there's some profit so here's a couple
of the examples of what i found today also these caramels which last time i was at costco actually
bought them and they're delicious by the way but i didn't even think to scan them because i was
just shopping and here they are and they do make a profit so there's another one for you i spent
quite a lot of time going through the health and beauty area in the beauty area i got toothpaste
i got some hair uh stuff and i got some medicines now the interesting thing is a lot of the stuff is
what i've already been used to scanning at grocery outlet and ollie's because it's at those stores
is basically the leftovers from costco or it's getting a little too close to the date but it's
still far enough out that i can still sell it just fine so anyways i knew kind of what i was looking
for and that really helped me at costco because i was looking for those same things where i got the
best bang for my buck is if costco had a coupon or a amount off for whatever reason so those are the
ones like the toothpaste is on special so i got it for cheaper which made a profit if it was regular
price it wouldn't make a profit here's a couple of knives that i found one that i'll show you and
one that i'm not so those make great profit the first one doesn't make quite enough of roi for me
but i did get the second one and then they had a bunch of halloween stuff halloween costumes
a couple decorations so i scanned some of the costumes but they weren't coming up and
i honestly was just kind of over it my back hurts and i've been sourcing all day i'm getting over it
so i just moved on but if you do take the time to type them in you could find them they're already
here it's august right now and there's already halloween costumes so at costco if you don't
know everything comes in super early so like that ribbon i was talking about is probably gonna be in
the next month or two for christmas like all the clothing for kids i did scan some of the clothing
i didn't find anything but all of that was like puffer jackets and then i went through the spices
and i scanned a bunch of spices so i did find a couple there's one that's like a local spice so
if your costco ever has anything local you want to make sure to go ahead and scan that because
that stuff usually does really well because it's regional and then i got one other spice and yeah
there was some bundles that made okay profit but it wasn't worth it the roi wasn't there so yeah
so i hope this helped you kind of get an idea of what to scan at costco they literally have
everything you can scan everything it will take you a couple hours i think it was in there for
two and a half hours but i did find quite a bit of stuff i'm really happy with this trip
so yeah if you like this video let me know subscribe like comment and let me know if
there's other videos or places you want me to go source or any questions you have on sourcing i'll
be sure to answer them on the next video thank you guys so much have a great day and happy sourcing
you