I am parting ways with my Amazon FBA store that I built from the ground up. My store specifically sells a mix of big brand coffee and energy drinks. As we all know, America runs on Dunkin!
The premise of the store is that I wanted to sell products that people will buy on a subscription basis where it's just a set and forget model that they reorder every single month. The coffee and energy drink niche combines high in-demand products with high margins and a subscription based model - the best of all worlds. All these products have a long shelf life, so we never have any problems with storing the products.
You will also never see or touch any of the products unless you really want to, since we use a warehouse provider that orders the products from our distributors once we run low. They also pick and pack all of the products and send them into Amazon's fulfillment centers. The store pretty much runs itself with two virtual assistants working at the warehouse facility.
So I spend about three hours every month just reviewing financials. Everything is very well documented and the new owner does not need any e-commerce experience or any business experience. In the past twelve months the store did around $75,754 in net profit (after paying all expenses) and $598,567 in top line sales.
You can easily grow the store by just keeping the products in stock, since I have always lacked the working capital to keep all the products in stock at all times. You can also grow the catalog pretty easily with the same distribution accounts that we currently have. Some of the products that we are selling are Black Rifle Energy Drinks, Folgers, Ground Coffee, Dunkin' Donuts, Roast Coffee, morning blend coffee, coffee house premium blend amongst many more brands.