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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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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We just received a huge wholesale closeout lot of really nice scented candles in 54 different scents (truffles, apple cinnamon, black cherry, buttercup, caramel corn, french vanilla, cupid kiss and more).  What does a cupid kiss smell like, anyway?  You’ll have to buy the candle to find out.  They are items # KT900 through KT953.

Closeout Scented Candles

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This week we’ve been busy packing up samples to bring to the August 9-12 Las Vegas ASD/AMD show and looking for closeout deals to bring with us to the show.  With all of the closeouts we’ve been buying, this is a much bigger job than it was a few years ago, but it’s a good problem to have.  We have a tremendous variety of items, including a lot of things you’ll be surprised to see us selling.  At a time when a lot of companies are bringing less merchandise to the show, our booth will be as big as ever, and packed with new wholesale closeouts alongside all of the regular items our customers love and expect from us.
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There is tremendous demand for toys right now, and many wholesalers are running out of toys to sell. At Kole Imports we do our best to anticipate retail and wholesale trends, and as a result we have a large selection of toys in our warehouse, ready to ship to your store. We have a wide selection of dollar store toys as well as larger over $1 retail toys. read more »