Kole Imports Blog

If you sell reusable shopping bags in your store, you’ll increase impulse sales at the cash register and make customers feel like they’re doing something positive.  Order some of our reusable shopping bags, item # GM006, put them near the cash register, and watch what happens.

Reusable Shopping Bag

People will be happy to buy one or more, and they’ll bring it back when they come to see you again.  Don’t forget that this also saves you money on disposable bags, as you won’t be using as many.  This is a simple way to boost sales, make customers feel good about what they’re buing, and save a tree.  To find this item on www.koleimports.com do a search for iten number GM006.

It’s time to stock up on Halloween items for your store, and we have a lot to choose from.  Some of these items just arrived yesterday, and they’re really nice.  We have lots of decorations, invitations, bags,  masks, candles and more. 

Halloween Boo Gift Bag Closeout

Take a look around on koleimports.com, and you’ll see what we mean.  Many of these items are closeouts, so when they’re gone, we won’t be getting more.  Buy now before we’re sold out.

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The success of your store depends on a number of factors, including location, presentation and merchandise quality. Before you open a dollar store, ask yourself the following questions:

Are there other successful non-competing businesses nearby?

* It would be nice if your one dollar store was a destination, but it’s important to attract impulse buyers as well. It’s easiest to do this if there are many people already shopping at other types of stores in the area. Look for successful restaurants, laundromats, coffee shops, movie theaters, and higher price retail stores near your location.  One of the most successful dollar stores we know of is right next to a busy movie theater, where people come out after the movie and ask each other “what do we do now?”  If the store has a low price point and interesting displays in the window, people are likely to say, “Let’s go to the dollar store.”  In this situation, the dollar store would do well to stock a lot of snack foods, which people would buy and bring into the theater with them.

Is there ample parking nearby?

Is there a lot of foot traffic in front of your store?

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Our Promotional Pallets of Merchandise have been selling well, so I’m writing here to let you know more about them, in the event that you are not already familiar with what they are and how they work.

General Merchanise 1/2 Pallet

We have created pallets of merchandise, which are ready for retail in under a minute.  You can see  a video demonstration at www.promopallets.com.  The items arrive at your store on a pallet, which you put on your sales floor and unwrap, revealing an attractive floor display full of merchandise your customers are looking for.  Every item in the display has the same UPC code, which makes it a lot easier for you to set up in your POS system.  We offer displays with different themes, including toys, automotive, housewares, tools and hardware, school and office, and more.

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We’re always looking to buy new closeouts, and if you have something you need to liquidate, here are some guidelines so you’ll know what we’re seeking.

A large portion of our customers own dollar stores, so merchandise priced low enough to retail for a dollar would be nice, but we’ve been doing really well with larger over $1 closeouts as well, so we will consider bigger items if we believe they are a fit for us and our customers.  Please contact Kole Imports if you have closeout merchandise you want to liquidate.  Call 800-874-7766 ext. 147 or send an email to closeouts@koleimports.com

New items, packaged for retail, and labeled with UPC codes are what we prefer.  We don’t buy chemicals, food, used or defective items.

We like to buy large quantities of each item, so they will be easier to sell in wholesale lots.  For example, if you are selling 2,000 different items, and you have 24 pieces of each item, we wouldn’t be interested.  But if you are selling 24 items and you have 2,000 pieces of each item, we would be interested.  We want to have enough pieces to be able to sell them to multiple customers and not be sold out after the first sale.

If you have an item you believe meets all of these criteria, put together an email with as much detail as possible, including pictures and the price you are asking for, and email it to closeouts@koleimports.com.

We just received a shipment of collectible pewter boxes inscribed with famous quotes or inspirational messages.   These are a closeout from a major gift company.  They are tagged with a retail price of $18.00 each.  Our wholesale price is much lower.

Robert Frost Maze Pewter Box

Walt Whitman Box

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Scrapbooking is still hot, and we have some nice new scrapbooking closeouts.  If you have a scrapbooking section in your store, you should add some of these items.  And if you don’t have a scrapbooking section, you would be wise to add one.  We have a lot of regular-stock scrapbooking items as well as the new closeouts, and you can see them all in the scrapbook item section on koleimports.com.

Scrapbooking Travel Themed Images

Pretty Flowers For Scrapbook Pages

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Come see us at the ASD/AMD New York Value And Variety Merchandise Show September 13-15 at the Javits Center in New York .  We’ll be bringing our latest batch of closeouts to the show, including a huge assortment of party items, and we’ll have a lot of great show specials.

To get more info about the show, go to the show’s website at http://www.asdamd.com/september/september-tradeshow-newyork

We love New York, and we’ll be happy to see you there.  We’ll be bringing our I Heart New York Egg Beaters with us, as one of our many closeouts.  You know you want one.  Item # KB795.

I Love New York Egg Beater Closeout

We are in the process of unloading huge containers full of closeout party items, which we’ll be selling as fast as possible at low wholesale prices.  It’s really nice stuff, and we’ll be running a sale featuring all of it this weekend at koleimports.com.We have invitations, plates, napkins, hats, decorations, balloons, banners and more.   Here are some pictures.

Party Hats from our new Party Closeout Shimpment

There are more than 200 other items in this shipment, and the price is right.  Go to koleimports.com and take a look before it’s all sold out.  Party items are good sellers at any time of year.  It’s always someone’s birthday.  If you don’t have a party section in your store, you need to add one.  See everything at www.koleimports.com.

We wrote a lot of orders in Las Vegas, and we saw a lot of our loyal customers at the ASD wholesale merchandise show.  Closeouts were definitely the most popluar items at the show, and people learned that you have to order early or they’re gone forever.  If you were at the show, thank you for coming to see us.

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