Big names, bigger sales!
A new discount store in the Bay Area is selling luxury goods – including appliances, electronics and toys – and returned Amazon packages at discount prices to happy customers.
Marini’s Discounts, located in Concord, opened its doors in January and prides itself on selling anything and everything at bargain prices. Buyers have come out with new AirPods, Xboxes, PS5’s, Apple Pencils and professional cameras.
In one video, posted to the store’s Instagram page, lines of massive bins were seen in the middle of the store, pilled high with just about any item someone could imagine.
Once happy customer walked away with a brand new Xbox and said the store ‘works like a charm.’
‘Thank ya’ll. Everybody who reads this. These guys are legit. Good looking out,’ the happy customer said.
Marini’s Discounts, located in Concord, California, opened its doors in January and prides itself on selling anything and everything at bargain prices
Hidden between the everyday items, buyers have discovered high price, luxury electronics for cheap
A pile filed with an Xbox console, a PS5, numerous games, controllers, headsets, Apple pencils and AirPods were on display in the bargain store
Last year, Americans returned $734billion in merchandise, according to the National Retail Federation. Many items can be returned to shelves, but some aren’t. In fact, in 2022 more than 6 billion pounds of bulk goods from retailers ended up in landfills, according to CNBC.
That is where stores such as Marini’s come in. Instead of sending items to landfills, companies will sell to third-party liquation companies. The companies have not guarantee on what they are buying, but sometime find a treasure trove of goods.
It’s similar to buying an abandoned storage locker at auction and finding expensive goods inside – or a bunch of items with no value.
The liquidation stores can then resell the items for whatever prices they choose.
Marini’s opened this year near San Francisco and has been offering numerous products in its store. The shop also posts videos online of their massive, yet messy, collection of goods.
In one clip, expensive, boxed up electronics such as Beats Solo headphones, an iPad, an Apple phone case, a Canon Rebel T7, an Xbox controller and headset and three pairs of AirPods were seen on a glass case.
The camera was being sold for $450 for the ‘complete set,’ while the AirPods were being sold for just $100.
The camera has retail value of more than $500 while the AirPods are typically sold for more than $200.
In another picture, a pile filed with an Xbox console, a PS5, numerous games, controllers, headsets, Apple pencils and AirPods were on display.
One photo showed multiple microwaves and air fryers stacked high on shelves, along with different brands of vacuums and coffee machines.
Other videos showed returned items from Target and Walmart that were once opened and returned back to the major retailers and now for sale in the discount store.
Prices for the items vary, as the store has ‘crazy’ daily deals that change each day of the week.
On Saturday’s certain items cost $11, on Sunday, $9, Monday, $7, Tuesday, $5, Wednesday, $3, Thursday, $2, and on Friday’s some items cost just $1. None of the items can be returned or exchanged.
Although some buyers visit the bargain store to buy for themselves and their loved ones, others use it as an opportunity to get their hands on high-prices items for cheap with plans to re-sell them on their ow
Lined inside the massive warehouse store, buyers can find clothes, appliances, toys, electronics, beauty products and more all for a discounted price
Although some buyers visit the bargain store to buy for themselves and their loved ones, others use it as an opportunity to get their hands on high-prices items for cheap with plans to re-sell them on their own.
As these buyers shop, they tend to look up what the items go for normally and decide if it’s worth buying and re-selling on their own.
Sometimes the store will post their higher priced items like electronics to their social media pages to let buyers know that they are hidden under the piles of other returns.
For bargain hunters, it turns the whole experience into a treasure hunt as customers were seen lined up outside of the store waiting to get their hands on the good finds.