Retail Display Cases, Kiosks & Push Carts - The Best Sellers are here!

What Sells Well?

They're in malls, on street corners, at parks and outside office buildings--entrepreneurs who've made their dreams of retailing a reality by opening push cart or retail kiosk businesses. They sell everything from watches to sunglasses, from men's ties to T-shirts. And they do it with overhead costs that are far less than those of full-fledged stores

Almost any high-quality product can be sold at a push cart or retail kiosk if it's packaged well and offered with a smile. Some popular offerings that tend to do better than average sales are listed here. Product popularity can be a factor of packaging and price-point with a unisex appeal.
• sunglasses
• cosmetics
• health supplements
• flowers/gift baskets
• hats/toques
• jewelry/rings/pendants
• key-chains
• perfume/after shave/cologne
• children's books/calendars
• coffee mugs/products
• scarves/ties
• sports jerseys
• t-shirts/boxers
• wallets/purses
• watches
• Glassware
• seasonal items
• cellular phone accessories
• services: Portrait, Internet, Photo-manipulation

For many entrepreneurs who dream of breaking into retail, opening a shop is cost-prohibitive--but a cart or kiosk is a profitable possibility.

Just ask Wally Rizza: In November 1995, Rizza, then 21, spent $25,000 to launch Shades 2000 Inc., a sunglasses push cart at the Irvine Spectrum Entertainment Center in Irvine, California. Within a year, he raked in $184,000 in sales. Today, Rizza has three sunglasses carts, a watch cart and a jewelry cart, and he expects to gross about $500,000 this year. "A push cart business can be very profitable and is economically within reach for many people," says Rizza, now 24.
"If you have the right product and a good location, it's not uncommon to make $2,500 to $5,000 per week [with a push cart]," says Bruce Stockberger, owner of Stockberger Marketing Associates, a North Palm Beach, Florida, small-business marketing firm specializing in retail push carts, retail kiosk and Internet marketing. "You can buy a push cart for as little as $11,000 and make $1,200 to $1,500 per day." Retail Kiosks--larger, enclosed, more permanent units in which the operator sits or stands--can pull in $20,000 to $60,000 per week, Stockberger says.