Sunrise is sourcing territory. With one of the country's largest outlet destinations sitting at Sawgrass Mills, sellers here fill a car with clearance buys and then face the real work: sorting, de-stickering, labeling and boxing every unit. We do that part — 35 to 40 minutes south in Medley, with mixed-SKU hauls into FBA inside 24–48 hours.
Very few American cities put this much sourceable retail inside one municipality. Sawgrass Mills anchors the western Broward shopping economy, surrounded by big-box strips along Sunrise Boulevard, Flamingo Road, University Drive and Pines Boulevard — an afternoon here can produce more buy opportunities than a week of scouting elsewhere.
That abundance sets the trap. Sellers scale their buying long before they scale their processing, and the gap shows up as a dining table covered in clearance goods, a label printer that jams, and a shipment plan that stays open for two weeks while retail tags sit on units that should already be sellable.
Arbitrage prep is also fussier than private-label prep. Every haul is mixed, quantities are uneven, packaging comes off a retail floor rather than a factory line, and some units turn out to be opened, scuffed or missing pieces. It is sorting and judgment work, done one item at a time. Our retail arbitrage prep guide walks through exactly how we run it.
The division of labor that works: you keep the part with the margin — scanning, sourcing, deciding what to buy — and hand off the part that is pure labor. Hauls come to Medley, get processed the same or next business day, and go out to whichever fulfillment centers Amazon assigns.
| Sunrise condition | What it means for haul processing |
|---|---|
| Major outlet destination in town | High buy frequency, mixed-SKU volume, unpredictable weekly counts |
| Retail-floor packaging | Price stickers, clearance tags and opened boxes need removing or overboxing |
| Weekend sourcing rhythm | Prep waits for weekday hours unless someone else has the bench |
| Residential and condo storage | Hauls stack up at home; racked storage releases into FBA in waves instead |
| I-75 and Sawgrass Expressway access | One clean highway run to a dock 35–40 minutes away |
Send the buy list or shipment plan while the receipts are still warm. It becomes the document we reconcile the physical goods against.
Drop it at the dock on a weekday run, or let retailer parcels ship straight here. Both routes land in the same receiving lane.
Units grouped by ASIN, store pricing removed, FNSKU applied over the manufacturer barcode and scanned, bags and bubble where the item needs them.
Cartons built with box-content data and handed to the carrier within 24–48 hours; anything held back waits on our racks for the next wave.
Shopping bags, loose cartons and retailer parcels broken down and grouped by ASIN, then counted against your buy list.
Store pricing, clearance labels and shelf tags taken off so units do not arrive at Amazon wearing another retailer's markdown.
Your label placed over the manufacturer barcode and scanned before the carton seals — one code per unit, confirmed readable.
Opened seals, dented boxes and incomplete sets photographed and set aside for your decision instead of shipping as new.
Suffocation-warning poly bags, bubble for fragile finds, and plain overboxing when retail packaging cannot survive the trip.
Rack space billed monthly on what you occupy, feeding FBA in waves so a clearance buy is not one enormous shipment.
The buying was never the constraint. Hand the haul over and the whole batch is sorted, labeled and boxed within a day or two of arriving, not spread across a fortnight of evenings.
Removing retail pricing is part of standard intake here. Where a tag will not lift cleanly, we overbox the unit and flag it rather than sending it through and hoping.
Retail floors are full of them. Condition triage catches opened seals and missing pieces before they reach FBA, with photos so you can decide what goes back to the store.
Then it should not all ship at once. Reserve stock lives on our racks and releases into FBA in waves as limits and sell-through allow, billed on the space it actually uses.
Yes — mixed-SKU retail hauls are one of the things this building does every week. You bring or ship the bags and cartons, we sort them into SKUs, remove store pricing, apply your FNSKU labels, bag or bubble whatever needs it, and build the Amazon shipment. Nothing about a haul of forty different items is unusual for us.
Roughly 34 miles and 35 to 40 minutes. From the mall, Flamingo Road or the Sawgrass Expressway gets you to I-595 and I-75; take I-75 south until it feeds the Palmetto Expressway, then exit at NW 103rd St. Weekend afternoons around the mall are the slow part, not the highway itself.
Yes. Arbitrage work is sorting work, and we price per unit rather than per SKU, so a hundred items across sixty ASINs is billed the same way a hundred identical units would be. Send us your buy list or the shipment plan and we reconcile the physical goods against it as we sort.
We do, because Amazon expects units to arrive without other retailers' pricing on them. Stickers come off, residue is dealt with where the packaging allows, and your FNSKU goes over the manufacturer barcode. If a tag cannot be removed cleanly without damaging retail packaging, we bag or overbox the unit instead and tell you which ones.
Drop-offs run Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00, and a quick message before you set off is all the scheduling we need. Since a lot of sourcing happens on weekends, most Sunrise sellers either come down Monday or ship the haul by parcel — the boxes do not need you to travel with them.
They get pulled aside and photographed rather than quietly shipped. Retail floors produce scuffed boxes, opened seals and mismatched sets, and sending those into FBA as new is how accounts collect complaints. You decide per item: overbox it, downgrade the condition, return it to the store, or have it sent back to you.
Yes, and combining both is the usual pattern. Retailer parcels arrive at our dock all day, get checked against the order details you send, and merge with your in-store buys into the same shipment plan. It also keeps a stream of small deliveries away from your front door in Sunrise.
That is what the racks are for. Bin and pallet storage is billed monthly on the space you occupy, so a big seasonal buy can sit here and release into FBA in waves as your limits and sales allow — instead of being crammed into one shipment or stacked in a spare bedroom.
Harder than most, because arbitrage inventory is mixed, unpredictable and arrives without factory prep. Since January 1, 2026 Amazon US no longer preps or labels, and unprepped units that are damaged or lost fall outside reimbursement. The labeling table used to be optional for haul sellers; now it is either your evening or a prep center's bench.
Send the form with the kind of products you buy, roughly how many units a month you move, and whether they arrive as drop-offs, retailer parcels or both. Per-unit pricing and receiving instructions come back within one business day. There is no setup fee, no monthly minimum and no penalty for a quiet month.
Tell us what you buy, roughly how many units a month, and whether hauls arrive by car or by retailer parcel. Per-unit pricing and receiving instructions come back within one business day — no setup fee, no minimum.
