 It isn’t even Halloween yet but retailers and wholesalers alike look lovingly, wistfully, droolingly towards the green of the Christmas shopping season. Truly it is beginning to look alot like Christmas…. in your store aisles at least. Here are some of the hottest items out there (heads up retailers!) according to Toys R Us and elsewhere for your kids:
1. Legos. Yes they have been around forever (created by those crafty Dane back in the 1940s), but little boys … and some girls… look forward to getting the hottest Lego toys every holiday. This year’s Asian sci-fi / fantasy inspired Ninjago Lego series are the toys to keep an eye out for. A fantastic way to a quick sale is to pair one of the Ninjago sets with a discount or a freebie of a starter Lego set or an older (but still very popular) Star Wars Lego Set.
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 From the deep South up to Alaska and Canada, hunting and fishing are sports that are passed down from one generation to the next. Human beings are wired to hunt. Hunters speak of their honest relationship they feel between themselves and nature. Hunting keeps alive the ideal of self-reliance. Hunting and fishing bonds families together in a ritual as old as human-kind. Additionally hunting promotes wildlife conservation. Over $100 billion dollars is spent every year in the United States on wild-life related recreational activities, bolstering our flagging economy with needed revenue.
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 Do you remember when Halloween was about children going out at night dressed as various spooks hoping to be rewarded with candy and offering a prank if they were not? Neither do we. These days Halloween is a holiday for young adults to get together and party wearing whatever costume strikes their fancy. Last year the hit movie Avatar swept the nation and costumes themed after it, including the obligatory “sexy” costume, became the biggest craze. However with the current economic climate has dampened fad costumes and 2011 has been short of hit sci-fi or action films for people to wish to emulate. Today’s consumer whishes for inexpensive alternative to purchasing a full costume.
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 Fads are hardly ever timeless, particularly those amongst children but we here at The Retailers Wholesale Guide were surprised to find a fad we thought only survived through the Christmas season of 2009. With the school year about to begin kids are looking for a way to make their boring school supplies look unique. In the 80′s students did this with decorated trapper keepers, in the 90′s it was binders sporting images of popular celebrities or television shows, and today it’s by decorating their number two pencils with adorable Japanese cartoon animals such as hamsters or kittens.
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 It’s mid-July and we’re drawing ever closer to the day that all parents love and all children dread: back to school! Yes, soon enough parents all over the United States will be heading out in search of back packs, sneakers, lunch boxes, and the most popular fashions for their kids. This is an important time of year for any clothing or general merchandise retailer, particularly with the increase in fashion awareness amongst teens and tweens. Kids these days, little girls in particular, want to wear what all the big kids are wearing while teens want to emulate college kids. Here are some of the biggest trends and fads in clothing as well as accessories for kids heading back to the school yard.
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If you have ever worked in an office place in the last 10 years, chances are you have met the co-worker obsessed with scrapbooking. During the 2000s, arts &crafts suppliers simply loved the scrapbooker, especially when you consider that by 2004 it grew to an over 2.4 billion dollar industry. Before this most arts and crafts stores consisted of artist paint, canvasses, models and flower arranging. Now, most art supply stores have at least one section dedicated to the hobby of scrapbooking. With over 1100 stores in the US alone dedicated to scrapbooking, wholesalers for art supply store must keep scrapbook supplies on hand for their customers.
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 The summer is finally here and people are updating their wardrobes to stay cool under that hot sun. There are many great summer essentials such as swimsuits, hats, and shorts but the thing that almost everybody has is sleek pair of sunglasses. So what’s the hot trend in sunglasses for 2011? Well while McArthur’s aviators haven’t disappeared entirely yet the big star for women’s shades is the oversized retro cateye sunglasses that stars from Jackie Kennedy to Angelina Jolie have all sported.
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 It’s the beginning of May and that means we are only a few weeks from Memorial Day and a short month from the Fourth of July. So what’s the big seller that these two holidays have in common? Patriotic goods! Americans can’t resist expressing their love for their country, particularly on its day of independence, by proudly flying a flag or donning the hat of famed pointer Uncle Sam. This isn’t just limited to tacky hats and house decorations. Streamers, paper plates, bikinis, t-shirts, tablecloths, and just about anything else you can think to be emblazoned with stars and stripes will be flying off the shelves for these two important holidays.
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Retailers already know that Christmas time is here. With less than 80 days until the big man comes to town to deliver gifts to all the boys and girls in the world, pallet loads of wholesale merchandise have made their way from the warehouse to the store waiting to be stocked by anxious shop keepers. So, what is in store for us …. and is it too late to still stock up on whatever the hottest new item about to come out?
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Horrors, spooks, and ghouls! It’s nearing the end of August and retailers as well as wholesalers are getting ready for the one day of the year that its OK for children to knock on strangers’ doors asking for candy in the middle of the night: Halloween. Though one might think there isn’t much profit to made from Halloween it is quite the contrary. Halloween costumes, make-up, candy, and decorations fly off shelves to prepare for this night of debauchery as kids and adults alike prepare for the festivities.
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