Exiting a Product Category? Sell Your Remaining Inventory

Is your company exiting a product category, division, or entire product line while new inventory is still sitting in your warehouse?

Big Willy’s Wholesale purchases qualifying new, unused inventory in bulk from manufacturers, brands, distributors, importers, wholesalers, retailers, and e-commerce businesses throughout the United States.

If your company has decided to stop selling a category and you have pallets, truckloads, or larger quantities remaining, our buying team wants to review the opportunity.

Who Buys Inventory From Discontinued Product Lines?

Businesses regularly change their product strategies.

A company may exit a category because it wants to focus on its core products, discontinue an underperforming division, change suppliers, eliminate certain brands, reduce its SKU count, or redirect capital toward faster-growing categories.

The business decision to exit the category does not mean the remaining merchandise has lost its value.

If the products remain new and unused, a wholesale inventory buyer may provide an alternative channel for moving the remaining stock in bulk.

Brands: Sell Inventory When Exiting a Category

Brands sometimes decide to leave an entire category rather than continue supporting a smaller or non-core product line.

That decision can leave substantial finished inventory in warehouses or fulfillment centers.

Big Willy’s Wholesale evaluates qualifying new merchandise from product-line exits, category exits, assortment reductions, discontinued divisions, and strategic inventory reductions.

If marketplace, geographic, channel, or other resale restrictions apply, include them with your submission.

Manufacturers: Sell Remaining Finished Goods

Manufacturers may stop producing an entire family of products while finished merchandise remains available.

Instead of continuing to store products that will no longer be manufactured, qualifying inventory can be submitted for a bulk purchase evaluation.

We evaluate both large single-SKU positions and multi-SKU product lines.

Distributors: Clear an Entire Product Category

Distributors frequently adjust the brands and categories they carry.

If your company is dropping a vendor, eliminating a category, or simplifying its assortment, you may be left with multiple SKUs that no longer fit your purchasing strategy.

Selling qualifying merchandise in bulk can help eliminate inactive SKUs, recover working capital, free warehouse space, and simplify your assortment.

Importers: Sell Inventory From a Category You No Longer Carry

Importers can also decide to stop importing a category while merchandise remains in the United States or is already in transit.

Big Willy’s Wholesale evaluates qualifying new imported inventory available in bulk quantities.

For merchandise still in transit, provide the expected arrival date, destination, quantity, and current shipment status.

Retailers & E-Commerce Businesses: Exit a Category Faster

Retailers and online sellers may decide to stop carrying a category after changing their assortment or repositioning their business.

Selling every remaining unit individually can take months.

A bulk wholesale sale can provide another option for clearing qualifying new merchandise and completing the category transition sooner.

What Types of Product Line Inventory Do We Buy?

Big Willy’s Wholesale evaluates new consumer merchandise across categories including General Merchandise, Beauty & Personal Care, Food & Beverage, Baby, Pet, Household, Electronics, Office & School, Outdoor Gear, Toys, Apparel, Kitchen & Cookware, Disposable Food Service Supplies, PPE & Gloves, and other consumer products.

Other categories of new merchandise can also be submitted for consideration.

New Merchandise Only

Big Willy’s Wholesale purchases new merchandise only.

We do not purchase customer returns, used merchandise, open-box products, refurbished goods, or reconditioned inventory.

If your remaining product-line inventory is new and unused, submit it for review.

Sell an Entire Product Line in Bulk

Our buying team evaluates:

• Multiple pallets
• Full truckloads
• Multi-truckload opportunities
• Large single-SKU positions
• Multi-SKU product lines
• Complete qualifying category inventories

For larger product-line opportunities, provide an accurate inventory spreadsheet or manifest whenever possible.

What Should You Send Our Buying Team?

Provide the product names, UPCs or SKUs, quantities available, case packs, photos of the actual merchandise, warehouse location, expiration dates when applicable, asking price, and any resale restrictions.

For multi-SKU product lines, include an inventory spreadsheet.

It is also helpful to explain that your company is exiting the category or product line and provide any deadline for removing the merchandise.

Turn a Product Line Exit Into Working Capital

Inventory from a discontinued category can continue consuming warehouse space and working capital long after your company decides to stop selling it.

Selling qualifying merchandise in bulk can help your business recover capital, reduce carrying costs, eliminate inactive SKUs, clear warehouse space, simplify operations, and redirect resources toward your core categories.

Instead of allowing the remaining inventory to sit in storage, give our buying team an opportunity to evaluate the entire position.

Looking for a Buyer for an Entire Product Line?

If you're searching for product line inventory buyers, buyers for discontinued product lines, who buys excess product inventory, buyers for complete inventory positions, closeout inventory buyers, or wholesalers that buy excess merchandise, Big Willy’s Wholesale wants to review your opportunity.

We purchase qualifying new merchandise in bulk quantities nationwide.

Sell Your Product Line Inventory to Big Willy’s Wholesale

Exiting a category with new inventory remaining?

Submit Your Inventory & Get an Offer

Send your inventory spreadsheet, UPCs or SKUs, quantities, case packs, photos, warehouse location, asking price, applicable restrictions, and required removal timeline for review.