R.G. Riley Takes The Guesswork out of Sourcing Off-Price Clothing
by Jonathan Staley on October 23rd, 2009
Buying off-price clothing by the case and hoping for at least some size variety and products that matched the description is a business strategy of the past. R.G. Riley, in keeping with its strong 75 year tradition of customer service, has launched a real-time case pack summary feature on its online product catalog (”Riley Interactive”). Users can now view dynamic pricing, size scales, colors and case availability on a single page.
Riley is a major reseller of closeouts and irregulars from Hanes, Gildan, Badger, Russell. Their specialty is case lots or “prepacks” and they move inventory in excess of a 240,000 items per week. Despite their high volume Riley re-packs every case in house and no item is shipped out without inspection. The Riley’s, said “We make sure the packing, colors, size, quality and the price is right for every case.”
With this due diligence already in place it only took a bit of technology to pass all of this information onto the wholesale buyer. Every product page on Riley’s site contains a detailed overview of the item (age class, fabric, quality, etc.) the contents of every prepack in stock, where it will ship from and how many cases are left.
Mike Riley one of the co-owners of RG Riley provides an overview of Riley in the video below and gives a quick demo of the real time interface. Experience it first-hand by going to any product page on www.rgriley.com.