hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video i am still here on the beach in texas and
it is friggin beautiful i am so excited to be here i've been looking forward to it since we left last
year but not only that i'm really excited because we finally have solar and so we don't have to run
our generator which makes it so much better but anyways if you are new to my channel my name is
nikki kirk and i've been selling on amazon doing retail arbitrage all for the last three and a half
years from that rv right there you do not need a lot of space and it is super awesome especially
if you're traveling but you don't have to be traveling to do it so for this video i'm going to
walk you through some of my grocery wins from the last three months so we're talking 2021 we've got
from january to today so i'm still in march here recording this but i'm going to walk you through
10 things that i sold and made a killer profit in the grocery category alone one of the main
questions i get asked about my un-gating guys is which one should i do first where
should i focus and sometimes even should i go to the bolo group or should i get ungated
i always always always will recommend getting ungated in grocery and topical first because it's
best use of your money when you are starting out and i know funds are tight but i'm telling you it
is so worth it and hopefully this video will show you why these are just the grocery items i mean
my topical and health and personal care did really well as well so but i just i'm showing you grocery
today maybe i'll show those ones another time but i wanted to show you what's really possible
out there for grocery the good news if you are a brand new seller is you don't have to have ever
sold anything to get ungated and grocery and topical you don't need a resource certificate
you don't need anything you don't have to have a business license you as a sole proprietor can
start getting ungated for amazon retail arbitrage in the guide includes the supplier and a few other
suppliers that you can use and actually it comes with a facebook support group for the ungating
specifically and it's a really helpful group of just amazon sellers in general so it's become a
really great group that's available to you if you want it but let's jump into my 10 best items i
sold this so far this year in grocery what i'm sharing with you right now is my seller board
screen so i've filtered it to show the 11 products actually but i'm only going to walk through 10 but
i already filtered it for 11. but so you can see seller board is what i use to track my profit and
inventory it goes forecast out for the month so it'll tell me what it's expecting that i will do
for like march and then april it shows you what you did last time you can filter through
you can add products that you want that's my roommate everyone's always asking what i say
when i say like we that's my roommate damian anyways where was i okay so seller board on the
screen what you're seeing right now and this is what i did on just 11 items from january to march
on grocery so i've got here total sales you can see i had 244 orders for
264 units and three returns i don't actually get a whole lot of returns of groceries i think grocery
is a great category in that way because you don't actually have a whole lot because a lot of them
are unreturnable estimated payouts that's just what amazon sent me and it doesn't like it's not
profit because it's sending me my inventory money back like the money i spent cost of goods so right
here the gross profit after cost of goods are taken out 1 804 on 11 items in grocery so let's
break down what they were so you can see what i'm talking about so here are the items and the ones
that i blocked out are because they are bolo leads they're either something i shared or someone else
in the group shared and i'll tell you all these i found on my own but since someone did share them
in the bowler group i'm not going to share them so right here this first item is again a lead
from the bola group but it did amazing for me so i had 37 units total in sales was one thousand one
hundred dollars amazon fees four hundred dollars cost of goods you guys this only cost me three
hundred dollars and i made 400 profit margin was 36 and the roi was 135 so you can see here this is
how i make my skus so i got it at grocery outlet for 7.98 i'll tell you this was a bundle item so
they were each 3.99 and i bundled them together and then my break even would have been 16.49
so i spent all together my cost of goods 300 just about and i made 400 and that happens in grocery
a lot as you will see one of the other items that i did really well with i actually mentioned this a
couple times so it cost five dollars and i was making five dollars and it's a small it was a
little tea canister so one thing i love about celery board is you can just click right here
on the asin and it'll pop open your amazon selling screen so here is the item again it was a little
tin of soup which actually kind of sounds great it's like you know how you make tea but it's soup
it cost 4.99 a grocery outlet they were selling for 15 i made literally five dollars it was like
501 or something on every one so you'll actually see here that i sold three different flavors of
them there was a a tomato one a faux one or four however you say that and then there was
another one which i can't recall but i think i talked about this when i was at grocery outlet
like the guy was like oh thank you for buying those do you want boxes and he helped me load
them up but that's what i mean like i bought all of them i went all over grocery atlas and oregon
looking for them and i found quite a few of them so in the q1 of this year i sold 54 of this flavor
37 of this flavor and 33 of this one when i first tested them i just thought i think i bought 12 or
18 of each of them because they were kind of small and i was willing to test it and then after that i
bought out the whole store everything they had i went back and got everything they had of that one
that was a great grocery win another one is this harry and david there's like a little tower snack
tower and it was 4.99 at grocery outlet selling for 25 i could not believe it i bought everything
that they had and it was kind of bulkier that one and it had to be poly bagged because it was
just like ribbon tied so i had to poly bag at all but it was totally worth it because for that one
i sold 24 of them cost of goods you guys 120 and i made profit 270 so of course i did everything i
need to do to get that profit another grocery when you might have seen me talk about this before is
this swiss hot cocoa i actually got this on sale after christmas but this is one of the
items where it's hot cocoa so it's winter really it's not necessarily christmas so i did sell this
even though christmas had already passed so i got that one for 4 50 at walmart and i ended
up selling 10 of them total i only bought 10. there was more i probably could have
bought more but i didn't cost of goods you guys 45 and i made just almost 96 profit on that one
we've got two more bolo finds here so one of them is a coffee item and you guys this cost it was a
bundle so you had to bundle them together it cost 99 cents for everyone so the bundle was eight cost
of goods twenty three dollars i made fifty dollars on that one this one another bolo item twenty one
dollars cost of goods for that was a hundred and four dollars and i made eighty dollars on that one
or eighty eight almost 90. and then lastly here's this coffee it's like one of those latte things
you guys k-cups all that kind of stuff always does really well i spent 55 dollars on this one and i
made 35 dollars so i mean it doesn't sound like it was that great a one maybe the price went down
but you know it was still a super easy fight all i had to do was put a sticker on it and
box it up and send it to amazon so i count that as a win so all together all my cost of goods
for just these 11 items total units 264 517 dollars in sales from 11 units i profited 1
841 and i only spent cost of goods 1457. so overall grocery has a really great margin and roi
so on these 11 items my roi was 126 that means for every dollar i spent i made a dollar 25
back basically and so the margin is 36 you guys my margin in general is right around 24 to 27
and my roi in general is right around 60 to 70 on my total sales so this is why grocery is so great
because when you find those items i mean they were replenishable for a period right after a while i
can't find them anymore but grocery usually has some really good replenishables there's things in
walmart that i'm still finding and selling three years later so it's a great category if you are
gated definitely it's worth getting ungated and not only that when you get the ungaining
guide for grocery it's got topical otc baby baby feeding diapering all of that stuff included so
it's definitely worth it if you want to and you have the funds i highly encourage you that's what
i would do as a new seller i would get that guide and get ungated lastly because i don't think it's
just you know don't take my word for it i'm going to share some recent successes from the grocery
and topical and gaining group with you here i hope this video was helpful and encouraging you