I want to talk today about Name brand children’s shelf pull and customer returned apparel which can be purchased by the pallet load.  Sears will pack apparel, accessories and last but not least “Holey” Jeans. Let me explain…Sears has a program where you can take your children’s jeans into the store for credit if your lovable child wears the knees out. It is a great program for parents on an apparel budget, but wholesale buyers like us tend to get stuck with tons of damaged jeans. The last load of children’s apparel I bought consisted of about 500-600 pair of holey jeans. The balance of the load was very good including high dollar jackets and great national name brands like MUDD and LEI. Let me go back and talk a little about accessories because if you buy this category from Sears you will get a lot of socks, underwear and kids jewelry as well. While I was not disappointed with this merchandise it is harder to resell.Our pallet load required a little creativity in reselling as we had to come up with a way to resell the jeans with holes.One idea we had was to market the jeans to summer camps and advertise them as “Cut Offs”. We were able to resell probably 300 pair using this technique. After about two months worth of trying to unload the rest of the jeans we decided to take the write off and donate the rest of them to our local church. In the world of closeouts, customer returns and salvage sometimes you have to be very creative in reselling.I would recommend this load or category to flea market sellers and discount apparel store owners as there was a lot of value. I do not think it would be wise to purchase this load with the intent to resell on Ebay as there are not enough “High End” brand names.Overall as salvage merchandise goes I would rate my experience buying this category from Sears a 6 out of 10, 10 being the best profitable load available.