Labor Day Profit Surge: Your Guide to Smarter Sourcing & Amazon Success

Your guide to Labor Day sourcing, beating order cancellations, mastering repricing, and shaping Amazon policy this week.

August 22, 2025

Welcome back to Seller Snacks, your weekly buffet of e-commerce goodness.

This week, we’ve got an adorable duck that waddled into our profit pond, Labor Day sales sourcing intel, a seller initiative that will help shape Amazon policies, and the secret to beating retailer order cancellations.

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Whether you’re flipping, sourcing, or binge-scrolling Keepa, grab a plate, we don’t judge.

On Today's Menu

Let’s eat!

🥨 Crisp Intel

Bite-sized insights to help you sell smarter.

📅 What’s Happening: Labor Day Weekend Sales

Labor Day weekend (Aug 30 – Sept 2) is one of the last big retail sales events before Q4. Major retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and Kohl’s push summer clearance and early fall promos, think mini-Black Friday. Sales typically begin in the last week of August (some even start a few weeks in advance).

📈 Why It Matters:

One of the best pieces of advice we got: online arbitrage becomes infinitely easier when you shift your focus to WHEN you buy as opposed to WHAT you buy.

Labor Day Weekend sales are a rare OA sourcing sweet spot.

You can expect deep discounts across a range of product categories:

  • Summer clearance items - grills, inflatable pools and accessories, outdoor games, coolers

  • Back-to-school leftovers - backpacks, notebooks, calculators, dorm necessities

  • Small appliances & electronics - coffee makers, headphones, laptops

  • Clothing and apparel - summer clearance and early fall collections

Early sourcing boosts September cash flow and preps your inventory for Q4.

📋 What to Do:

✅ Check circulars & deal pages early: many sales go live Thursday before Labor Day.
✅ Create your margins: stack coupons & rewards.
✅ Don’t miss online-only codes & free-ship thresholds.
✅ Track prices with Keepa to avoid seasonal traps.
✅ Speed up deal evaluation with AZ Insight: this Chrome extension puts Amazon seller analytics directly in your browser, letting you know INSTANTLY if a lead is worth buying. Our sourcing team swears by it. Ready to instantly evaluate deals and save hours? Try AZ Insight FREE for 30 days today!

🚀 Do you want a Labor Day sourcing shortcut?

FBA Lead List is curating the hottest Labor Day deal finds so you don’t have to chase every sale page. Grab clearance, back-to-school, and seasonal deals fast and stay ahead of the OA crowd.

Here’s how our lists performed last week:

🔍 Unique Top Leads: 250
💰 Avg. Net Profit: $11.91
📈 Avg. ROI: 86.84%
🏷️ Avg. 90 Day Rank: 139,414
💸 Total Profit (all lists, buying only 1 unit per lead): $3,180.17

💵 Average Profit (all lead lists): $636.03

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🍪 OA Munch

Bite-sized tips to boost your flips.

⚠️ Are You Repricing Wrong?

Most Amazon sellers lose money because their repricer is set up wrong. In this thread, we show you how to fix it with 4 best practices, from setting min/max prices at purchase to avoiding early repricing mistakes, so you can protect margins and stop racing to the bottom.

Pro Tip: Want a repricer that won’t tank your margins? Informed.co uses AI-powered algorithms and Buy Box guardrails to keep you competitive, profitable, and free to grow other aspects of your business. Users have reported a 63% increase in buy box wins on average in the first two weeks. Stop racing to the bottom and protect your margins.

🤖 Smarter Sourcing with AI

Most sellers still rely on old-school scanning, but Warner Fields (@FieldsofProfit) shows how AI can give you an edge. In this video, he reveals how he uses AI to:

✅ Scan for profitable products faster
✅ Spot hidden opportunities most sellers miss
✅ Make smarter buying decisions with less guesswork

📊 Track Your Turnover Like a Pro

Most sellers overlook how daily inventory turnover affects profits. In this thread, Jeff Storch (@JeffSendsIt) shows how to measure sales against in-stock inventory, spot slow moving products, and figure out whether dips are seasonal or strategy related. This report helps separate inventory issues from demand issues and guides action to keep profits steady.

🍄 Mental Snacks

Quick Bites. Better Mindset.

Don’t just accept Amazon’s rules. Be an active seller who helps shape them. Participating in Amazon seller initiatives keeps you informed, gives you early insight into upcoming changes, and ensures your voice is heard on issues that affect your business.

On August 28, 5 PM ET, Yoda Yee, CEO of Threecolts, and Jim Cockrum of Jim Cockrum Coaching will host the Seller Advocacy Seminar to update resellers on the recent wins of their seller advocacy efforts:

  • Resolved media/book listing errors and improved price transparency limits

  • Efforts to drive the reintroduction of instant SKU creation

  • Tackling counterfeit enforcement gaps and improving brand gating policies

  • Upcoming initiatives like authenticity verification, brand gating reform, and many more

Yoda Yee is one of the leading and most active voices driving Amazon policy reform for resellers and has been actively coordinating with Amazon on fixing challenges that legitimate resellers face, such as brand ungating.

Hailed as “the most trusted coach for online sellers,” Jim Cockrum is the host of the Silent Sales Machine Radio podcast and the lead coach for the Proven Amazon Course, which was rated as “the #1 Amazon Seller Training in the World”.

This is your opportunity to network, positively impact Amazon policies, and join a movement that aims to improve the seller experience for everyone in the Amazon marketplace.

🍿 Snacktacular Spotlight

Each week, we shine a light on something (or someone) that’s helping Amazon sellers snack smarter.

This week’s spotlight is on….

💡OA Buddy - Your Secret Weapon against Order Cancels

Retail order cancellations are one of the biggest headaches for OA sellers. You find a discounted item online, place an order to flip it on Amazon, and suddenly the retailer cancels it. Just like that, your potential profit disappears, the time you spent sourcing is wasted, and your inventory plans are thrown off.

Why Retail Order Cancellations Hurt Your OA Business:

⚠️ Lost Profits – Cancelled orders mean missed deals and lost revenue.
⚠️ Wasted Time – Sourcing and purchasing efforts go to waste.
⚠️ Inventory Disruption – Planned stock gaps affect cash flow and Q4 prep.
⚠️ Stress & Uncertainty – Unpredictable cancellations create operational headaches.
⚠️ Scaling Challenges – Frequent cancellations make consistent growth difficult.

How OA Buddy Protects Your OA Business

OA Buddy helps you stay ahead of retail order cancellations, safeguard profits, and source efficiently.

⚡ Make smarter purchases instantly - Get real-time alerts on order and quantity limits, reseller-friendly badges, and key purchase info across 500+ retailers.
🔍 Find alternatives fast - Quickly check other retailers to secure stock if your first choice is limited or risky.
🛒 Discover new inventory sources - Browse OA Buddy’s full database of 500+ sites, filter by reseller-friendly options, and sort by limits to keep your sourcing pipeline full and reliable.

Stop Losing Deals

Tired of cancelled orders wasting your time and profit? Safeguard your OA business with OA Buddy. Plus, it's backed by a 7-day money-back guarantee!

🥣 The Dip Bowl

Click-Worthy Finds Served Fresh

🎭 Meme of the Week

Because Amazon selling is serious business… but not too serious. Want more sourcing memes, weekly drops, and a few laughs between IP claims?

🤝 Let’s Partner Up

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