Amazon sellers are raiding dollar stores for products like glow sticks and Twinkies to resell online

• Amazon resellers are looking to dollar stores for items they can flip for profit.
• Some are picking up penny items at overstocked Dollar General stores.

Dollar stores have become a favorite destination for some Amazon resellers looking for products to flip.

The shoppers are among those who make money by buying products, then selling them on Amazon as third-party sellers — a process known as retail arbitrage. Products that are worth flipping from Dollar Stores range from glow sticks to Twinkies, according to videos posted on TikTok.

User yassinhall, for example, posted a video in July saying that she has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of glow sticks in a single month. She said her source for the glow sticks was a Dollar Tree store.

"You're probably now evaluating your whole life," the user says in the video.

Dollar Tree and Dollar General did not immediately respond to a request from Insider for comment on the videos in this article.

Another seller, who uses the name beezyesco574 on TikTok, posted a video in October showing two-packs of power strips for sale at a Dollar Tree store for $1.25 each. The same power strips were selling on Amazon at the time for $9.99 each, according to the video.

The video shows the user unpacking the power strips then apparently preparing to ship them to a warehouse to be sold through Fulfillment by Amazon, a service that allows sellers to sell products while letting Amazon ship them to customers.

Other shoppers take advantage of Dollar General items that sell for $0.01 each.

Many of Dollar General's stores are so overwhelmed with inventory that they are unable to remove items that have been written-off, leaving them to be scooped up by eagle-eyed customers.

According to a video posted in June, user forbiddenfruitreselling picked up several boxes of Orange Creme Pop-flavored Twinkies at a Dollar General store for $0.01 per box.

The boxes sold on Amazon for $16.99 each at the time, according to the video.

Retail arbitrage has become a side hustle for some. Others have made a full-time job out of scouring the shelves, especially clearance sections, of stores ranging from Walmart to Kohl's.

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