End-of-Line Industry Pickups
Factories are efficiency machines, but when things go wrong, waste piles up. Misprinted labels, dented cans, off-size packaging — all perfectly fine on the inside, but worthless to a store shelf. So what happens? Most of it gets tossed unless someone shows up to grab it.
End-of-Line Pickups are when factories or distributors dump “unsellable” stock at the end of a run. It’s not garbage, it’s just not retail-pretty.
- Misprinted soda cans? Still soda.
- Cereal in the wrong-size box? Still edible.
- A pallet of dented cans? Still dinner.
The trick is to know where the factories are, ask the right questions, and sometimes just show up with a truck bed. Managers hate waste. If you offer to haul it, they’ll often let it go cheap or free.
It’s not about scavenging. It’s about seeing opportunity where others see “trash.”
