I ended up giving most of the food away to my staff. Technically where I live, you cannot donate expired food, but we got it to some homeless people and places would would take it as best as we could!
Why are you doing this? Return pallets has to be the worst reselling avenue to go down. A lot of it is broken and will be returned again. The time spent to test everything turns it into a low paying hourly job.
One of our local wholesalers pallet companies, brings in a whole truck load once a month, they run a pop up grocery store. $1 or 2 each item , Thursday everything $1 , Not much left by Friday afternoon, then it’s 5.00 per banana box. They don’t have much left at the end of the day.
In my area there are beginning to be amazon return retailers. The 1st day they get a shipment everything is $10. Every day for the rest of the week it is reduced by $1. The bad thing is, its stuff no one wanted to start with.
I sell expired food online. It is usually good even many month after it has expired. Just disclose the date and give people a good deal. Why waste food that is still good to eat...
All the bubbles items are less than $5 each. Yoga mats garbage, fabric shavers also found in every goodwill in America for $12 even though it’s $4 brand new
2019 I bought my first amazon pallet cost me $450 I made 5K. The local company moved out of SF and i have not bought a pallet since. Hard for me to find sellers because way to many scammers out there.
That looks like an fc load. Fc typically has all new items and tons of duplicates. Often times from businesses that sold on Amazon and went out of business. On the fc load we brought it several months ago it had a lot of those chip boxes passed the best by date and other food too. Next time I plan on bringing in a Amazon Lpn load. Those loads are all returns. 90% have been new and sellable in my experience. Those are better items that people are looking for and usually higher priced items. Manifested loads are good too if you can get them around 10% retail. A lot of people sell the the top 100 items from them on eBay then dump the rest in bins for customers.
I am an Amazon Live Streamer and never have to ship those products. I am looking to move and get a "shop" to host once a month garage sales to do more Amazon pallets.
Where I lived , until about a year ago, the food pantries would absolutely NOT accept expired food, but an Amish store did sell expired food. We bought quite a but and it was always fine.
I would be cautious of knock offs with Amazon returns. For example they'll often have the cheap Temu/AliExpress kind of knockoff unofficial Pokemon cards made to look like the real ones but are lesser quality, unbranded Plush of popular brands like Pokemon, etc. For example the kind of unofficial air pod holders, unofficial croc charms, unofficial phone cases, etc that eBay will sometimes take down per request of the official brand. Fun stuff to have but you'd need to let the buyer be aware that it's not the official real deal. Also I highly agree with others - donate the food to the homeless or do something useful with it instead of trashing it. :)
Gosh, we humans REALLY waste a great deal. Can appreciate items that are returned that don't fit or too large due to manufacture fault. So many overseas and homeless would love to receive those as gifts or a yearly sale for low income, everything for $1.00 - 3.00. Hope you are able to sell; good use for your new warehouse.
I won a iPad on a whatnot game 8/6/24 and I still havnt received it! I’ve emailed you and the dailyrefinememt crew with the show info and all the info they need to research, but no one is helping to resolve the issue. I’ll have to leave back feedback if I’m still ignored.
I have friends that buy Amazon returns and it's a lot of adult stuff, to keep it clean. I don't know why Amazon would accept that kind of return. Lol 🤷♀️
Home Depot returns are the worst trash I've ever seen. I know bin stores that have tried it out and it was almost all broken junk. Amazon and Walmart returns are much better (but still kind of suck).
Chris would you recommend non-manifested pallets for eBay sellers? Like overall do you make money on each pallet or do you go negative on one to profit on another? Obviously the waste is not something you can control
Please don't waste that food. It's safe to eat shelf-stable foods that are months or even a few years past their "best before" date. There are no laws against selling or donating it. It's up to each individual food bank whether they accept it, so please do offer it rather than dumping it.
Unless you want to throw money away go unmanifested even when it is they aren’t accurate as what your getting. Not to mention some show up with no tops to them so people end up stealing electronics,etc.
I'm not sure about your state but generally it's legal to sell expired food if you let customers know. In PA there are sellers that only do short dated and expired food and do really well. I would've been able to sell just about all of that food no problem. $1 if it's expired. Better than nothing and throwing it away
There is a food coop by my house in San Diego that accepts expired food. They focus on reducing food waste and will even get it to animals or figure out composting to ensure it does not go to waste.
