Kole Imports Blog

We hope your Christmas season sales are strong, and we know you’ve been busy with Christmas shoppers, but don’t forget to restock your store so you’ll have merchandise to sell in 2012 after the holiday season is over.

Now is a good time to look at your inventory and decide what to restock, what to discontinue, and what new types of merchandise you’d like to start selling.  Be prepared for upcoming seasons and holidays by having the right merchandise.  As you replace the Christmas items in your store with regular merchandise, do an assessment and decide what categories of merchandise you need on your shelves.

Look around your store and consider your supply of everyday staple items, which customers will need all year round.  Make sure you have basic housewares and tools, school supplies, and toys.  Go slowly and really consider every product category as you go through the different departments of your store.  Do you have potato peelers in your housewares category?  Are there sink stoppers in your bath items department?  If you really look at your store, you’ll find opportunities everywhere.  Try to add the items your customers would buy, but may or may not be deliberately looking for. 

How can Kole Imports help?  Take a look at our website and see what’s new regularly to see what’s new.  We’re always buying new wholesale closeouts, including regular staple items as well as unique gadgets and novelty items.  We also have a huge supply of great everyday staple items in stock and ready to ship.

Ring in the new year by being prepared for it.  Plan for the upcoming year by ordering now to restock your store for 2012.

Wholesale Closeout Merchandise Arriving Daily

We’re always receiving new closeout merchandise, and the best items sell quickly, so it’s a good idea for our customers to check koleimports.com regularly to see what’s new.  Our most recent batch of closeouts includes some great housewares, stationery, shoes and pet items. 

To see what’s new at Kole Imports, go to our Online Catalog and use the New Arrivals tool at the upper left of the page.  You can choose how many months of new items you would like to see.  If you haven’t checked in 3 months, set it at 3 Months and click the orange arrow.  If you have been checking regularly for new wholesale closeout items, choose 1 Month from the drop down menu and click the orange arrow.  Closeouts are a bigger part of our business than ever before, and we’ve become experts at finding the best items at the lowest prices.  Make sure you check regularly to see what’s new, because closeout items sell out quickly, and when they’re gone, they’re gone forever.

Wholesale Christmas Items

We have a wide arrangement of wholesale Christmas closeout items this year, including ornaments, stockings and Santa hats.  Now is the time to stock your store for Christmas, if you haven’t done it already.  Click here to see all of our wholesale Christmas items.

This is the biggest selection of Holiday items we’ve ever had, with over 400 different items in stock now!  It’s all very nice quality, including things customers will be looking for, like stockings, ornaments, garlands, decorative signs, cards, wrapping paper, gift tags, craft kits, and Santa hats. 

Take advantage of these great deals now, before all of the best items sell out.  Boost your profits by giving your customers what they want this holiday season.

Wholesale Closeout Shoes

Kole Imports… Your Shoe Source? We are now. We just received a wholesale closeout lot of shiny dress shoes in various colors. The brand name is Italic, and you can do a search on the Internet to see Italic shoes retailing for anywhere from $40 to $90 a pair. We’re wholesaling them for $5.50 a pair, so there’s plenty of profit to be made when you sell these Italic dress shoes in your store.

Each pair of shoes comes in a shoebox with the size and color written on the end. Inside the box is a pair of shiny dress shoes, wrapped in protective paper, a shoe cleaning cloth, and a plastic bag with the Italic logo on it, which your customers can use to carry their shoebox home.  Italic shoes have a leather lining, and are available in a variety of colors and sizes, as you can see in the picture above. When you order a wholesale lot of a specific color of shoe, you will get a variety of sizes of that shoe. 

To see all of our wholesale shoe items, click here to go to our website’s shoe item category. Along with the Italic dress shoes, we have shoe laces, shoe stretchers, shoe polish and more.

Wholesale Candles

We’ve just received a large shipment of closeout candles, and our wholesale candle selection is great right now. Click here to go to our website to see all of our wholeslale candles. 

We have some great quality big candles, medium sized candles, and votive candles, as well as a good variety of metal and glass candle holders. Our closeout candles are from name-brand manufacturers, and they are great values. 

If you sell candles in your store, now is a great time to add some new items.  Your customers will love them, and you’ll be making great profit on them.  Candles are also great impulse items, and they encourage repeat purchases.  People who came to your store looking for other items will see pretty fragrant candles and add them to their order.  Once a candle has been used up, you need to buy another one, so if they liked the candle you sold them, they’ll be back for more soon.  Add candles to your store.  It’s a win-win situation for you and your customers.

Wholesale Halloween Items

It’s time to start shopping for wholesale Halloween items to add to your store for the upcoming trick-or-treating season.  We have a large selection of great Halloween items, which were part of a giant wholesale party closeout purchase.  This is a great opportunity for you to be ready for seasonal shoppers and add some high-profit Halloween items to your store.  Halloween shoppers will be looking for bargains this year, and you’ll be able to deliver high-quality Halloween items at discount prices.  Click here to see all of our wholesale Halloween items.

Wholesale Craft Items

Value-priced craft merchandise is very popular with smart shoppers.  It makes sense to have a craft section in your store if your customer base includes parents, kids, and teachers.  Our craft line has always been strong, but it is better than ever now that we’ve added hundreds of craft closeouts over the last year.  We have more than 1,000 craft items now! If you haven’t seen our craft section, it’s time to take a look, and if you haven’t seen our craft section lately, it’s time to take another look and see what’s new.  Click here to see all of our wholesale craft merchandise. 

Kole Imports’ wholesale craft items include beads, sticks, pipe cleaners, wooden kits, sewing kits, foam kits, stickers, scrapbooking accessories, paint, glue, glitter glue, glue guns, paint brushes, markers, pencils, paper, tools, plastic gloves, googly eyes, ribbons, lace, sea shells, feathers, bells, dowels, styrafoam balls and a whole lot more.  Our craft selection is huge right now, and a lot of the items are closeouts.  Stock up now before they sell out.

New Wholesale Christmas Items

It’s Christmas in July!  We just received a big lot of wholesale closeout Christmas items, and we’re happy to have plenty of time to sell them.  Now is your chance to stock up early on Christmas merchandise for the upcoming holiday season?  Why order in July?  It’s the best time to get the best items.  We have new ornaments, stockings, tree decorations, and crafts.  We even have little Christmas trees.  Invest a little bit of time and money shopping for Christmas items now, and make more profits at Christmas time.  Your store will be stocked for Christmas before anyone else’s, and the selection of items will be vast.  Go to koleimports.com right now and start celebrating Christmas in July!  Click this link to see our Christmas closeouts.

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