Ep. 3101 - Q&A: “I want to sell ‘weird grocery items’…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Can you make money finding and reselling discontinued snacks or cult-favorite condiments? In this episode, we explore the surprisingly lucrative world of rare grocery resale.
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| 0:00.0 | Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm also thinking about other things I need to do |
| 0:22.2 | and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, |
| 0:26.7 | though, is order fulfillment because Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it. |
| 0:32.2 | If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks. |
| 0:37.1 | Automations allow you to smoothly |
| 0:38.5 | print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation grows with you. |
| 0:43.8 | They have helped many of our customers over the years. In fact, it is the fastest, most affordable |
| 0:48.3 | way to ship products to your customers. You even get discounts up to 88% off UPS, T-HL Express, |
| 0:57.4 | and USPS rates, and up to 90% off FedEx. |
| 1:01.2 | Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. |
| 1:03.1 | Switch to ShipStation today. |
| 1:07.2 | Go to shipstation.com and use CodeHustle to sign up for your free trial. |
| 1:10.6 | Once again, shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 1:14.5 | Lemonada. |
| 1:30.2 | Today's episode of the podcast could be known as weird grocery items. Weird grocery items. Can you make money finding and reselling discounted snacks or cult favorite condiments? In this episode, we're going to |
| 1:36.0 | explore the potentially lucrative world of rare grocery resale. Every once in a while, |
| 1:41.8 | somebody goes viral for tracking down a long lost soda flavor or selling a discontinued snack for 10 to 20 times or more its original price on eBay. |
| 1:51.7 | But what if that wasn't just a fun moment? |
| 1:53.5 | What if it was a business? |
| 1:55.3 | That's what we're going to hear about today. |
| 1:57.0 | Question from a listener who has the skill, a valuable gift, we could say, of finding obscure, |
| 2:02.4 | regional out-of-print grocery items. Is it out of print? Do you actually say something is out |
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