Houston Wholesale Merchandise Show December 7-9 2011
Come see us in Houston Texas December 7 through 9 at the Houston Hilton Southwest in Houston, Texas at 6780 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77074. We’ll be there from 8:30 to 5:30 on 12/7 and 8, and we’ll be there from 8:30 to 2:00 pm on 12/9.
New Wholesale Closeout Joke Items
We’ve just received a wholesale closeout lot of classic joke items. This includes fake dog poop, joy buzzers, squirting cameras, car exhaust whistles, squirting rings, and much more. These are classic gags that kids have loved for decades. They’re nicely packaged and UPC coded, ready for retail sale. Kids will love these items. Put these joke items in your toy section and watch them fly off of the shelves, and improve your community by turning the next generation of kids into wacky pranksters.
To see all of our wholesale joke items, go to our online catalog and do a search for “joke” or click here to see all of our closeout toys. People love to laugh, and they enjoy a good prank. Adding these items to your store will make shopping more fun for all of your customers.
Wholesale Pet Merchandise
Do you have a pet section in your store? If not, think about how many of your customers own dogs or cats. Selling pet items is a great way to make more sales and increase repeat visits from your customers.
Kole Imports carries a nice assortment of wholesale pet merchandise, including leashes, bowls, chew toys, throwing toys, rope toys, rubber squeaky toys, cat teasers, litter boxes, collars, grooming gloves, nail clippers, rawhide chews, and more. This makes it easy for you to put together a pet merchandise assortment to fit into a section of your store.
How much space you dedicate to pet merchandise is up to you. If you want to try a pet section out and see how it does, you can start small, with 20 or 30 items and see how they sell. Our pet item packaging is bright yellow, so a wall of bright yellow packages will be noticed by your customers, and when they see the great values, especially compared to what they would pay at a pet store, they’ll be hooked.
Just like toys are a great category for add-on sales to people with children, pet items will create extra sales from your pet-owning customers. Click the following link to see our Wholesale Pet Items. You will see for yourself that it’s possible to set up a really great pet item section without spending a lot of money.
Wholesale Gardening Items
The weather is getting warm, and it’s time to get ready for summer with wholesale gardening items. We have large quantities on hand of all of the classic items we’ve sold for years, as well as a lot of great new gardening closeouts.
Gardening items are great sellers in warm weather. If you don’t have a garden section in your store, it’s a worthwhile addition. Your customers are getting ready for summer by getting their yards cleaned up and looking pretty.
Important items to carry are hand tools (shovel, claw, mini hoe), gloves, hose nozzles, large and small pots, kneeling pads, garden fence, clippers, plant hangers and decorations. Click here to see our wholesale gardening items. This is seasonal merchandise. Once we’re sold out, we won’t be ordering more until next season. Order now to get the best items before they’re gone.
Michigan Wholesale Mart Show
Come visit us in Michigan at the Michigan Wholesale Mart Show and see our newest wholesale closeouts and specials.
It’s time to make your New Year’s Resolutions. What are you going to do differently this year? It’s time to make some changes which will improve your personal and business life. In order to be effective, these resolutions need to be Specific, Measurable and Stated In The Positive. What does that mean?
Specific: State exactly what you intend to do.
Measurable: Build measurability into the resolution, giving specific numbers of pounds you want to lose or money you want to make.
Stated In The Positive: The resolution should say what you will do, not what you are going to stop doing.
Don’t say “I’ll try to get more exercise.” Do say “I will exercise an hour a day 5 days each week.” Don’t say “I’ll make more sales in my store.” Do say, “I will increase sales in my store by 10% in 2011.” Don’t say “I will stop eating junk food.” Do say “Every day I will eat healthy nutritious foods which are good for my body.”
If you are clear in stating to yourself what you intend to do, your mind will go to work making your resolutions come true. If you resolved to increase sales by 10% and you find your sales flat at the end of February, you’ll know that action is necessary to reach your 10% goal by the end of the year. If you keep doing what you did last year, you’ll get the same results. If you are committed to keeping the promise you made to yourself, you’ll find a way to increase your sales. More impulse items? More advertising? Bigger signs in front of your store? Seasonal items? Regional sports team merchandise? Big sales? Funny gadget items? If you’re focused on keeping your resolution every day, you will find yourself experimenting with new things every month until you find what sells, and you’ll hit your 10% target.
The purpose of a New Year’s Resolution is to make your life better by prompting you to keep promises to yourself. When you make resolutions this year, be serious about them, write them down, and put them somewhere you will see them every day. Then spend the year having fun trying different approaches to keep your resolutions. And don’t make weak resolutions. Really challenge yourself, and you will find that you have a very happy new year in 2011.
Christmas shopping season has begun. What can you do to boost your store’s sales this holiday season? Of course, we’re going to recommend that you buy wholesale Christmas merchandise from us (We have more wholesale Christmas items this year than ever before), but there are other things you can do as well.
Start out by looking at your store and imagining you are a shopper getting ready for Christmas. What are you looking to buy? If you’re like most people, you have a few very specific needs and a lot of vague ideas. This makes you especially susceptible to impulse items. You may go to a discount store looking for Christmas wrapping paper, and as you walk through the store you see Christmas stockings for the kids, clear tape to use when wrapping presents, small inexpensive toys to put in the stockings, an As Seen On TV item to give to your weird uncle who already has everything, a mini LED flashlight for your mom to keep in her car for emergencies, socks and underwear for the kids.
As you can see, getting ready for Christmas doesn’t just mean stocking christmas items. Retail shoppers are also looking for gifts of all sizes and prices during the holiday season. If you have a lot of great gift items way in the back of your store, and all of your Christmas decorations and wrapping paper in the front of the store, will your customer make it to the back of the store or not? Consider creating displays of great gift items and placing them in the front of the store along with your Christmas items. Christmas shoppers are often in a hurry, but they will grab an impulse item if it is easy to find and it fits their Christmas gift giving needs.
Letting people know you have Christmas items is also very important. You should have signs outside the store advertising Christmas items as well as displays inside the store. If you want to go the extra mile by dressing your employees up as elves, we have 794 elf costumes to sell, item number AR004, which we bought as a closeout. We’re wholesaling them for $2.75 and the minimum order is 24. If you’re not into elves, we have hundreds of other low-priced wholesale Christmas items, which you can see on our webstie by clicking here.
Getting yourself and your employees into the Christmas spirit is very important. Holiday shoppers can be stressed out and rude, and it is important for a retailer to maintain a friendly, calm demeanor with everyone visiting their store. As a manager, it’s up to you to communicate this to your employees and keep them motivated enough to make your customers feel welcome. Customer service is a difficult job to do well, but it makes a huge difference.
Take some time today to look at your store and objectively ask yourself if you’re ready for Christmas shoppers. You’ll find areas for improvement, and you will be able to improve your store and boost your profits.
Kole imports wishes you a happy and profitable holiday season.
Kole Imports is and will continue to be a dollar store merchandise supplier, but we also carry a variety of Over $1 wholesale items perfect for all kinds of stores. Our closeout buyers have found great deals on higher-priced items, and our customers love the variety. Our latest lot of wholesale closeouts includes craft and home decor items, like animal statues, crafting toolboxes, yard art and signs, craft items, pictures and home decor items.
If you’re looking for some high-quality items for your store at a low wholesale price, take a look at what we have to offer on koleimports.com or call 800-874-7766 to talk to one of our salespeople. We’ve never had this much variety before, and we know you’ll find great items to sell in your store.
We’ve been really busy unloading container after container of wholesale closeout gift, craft and party items. These closeouts are from a huge retailer of great-quality party, craft and gift items. Many of the items are priced low enough to sell in a dollar store, and we have some larger higher-price-point items as well. There are also some licensed products and seasonal items in the mix as well.
Glow In The Dark Bag # HM204
Now’s the time to start stocking your store for Halloween. You need to allow time for the items to ship, and for you to set up everything in your store so it will be ready for your customers. Halloween is a big holiday, and shoppers are always looking for affordable decorations. Halloween items are great impulse items in September and October. If you place them in an obvious place in your store, people shopping for other things will grab a few Halloween items to add to their orders.
We have trick-or-treat bags, decorations, candles, and party supplies. All of these items are good quality and attractive, and they will really make your Halloween section stand out.