Small-town shopkeepers and online resellers want cheap garment stock they can trust. A sorting shop in Shahdara's garment trade can buy surplus and slightly faulty pieces, grade them by size and quality, and sell photographed bundles over WhatsApp.
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This business buys surplus stock, cancelled orders and slightly faulty pieces (often called export rejects) from garment makers and traders. Staff sort them by size, style and quality, fix small faults such as loose buttons, and pack mixed bundles.
Readymade garments are Shahdara's One District One Product, and its stitching units sit close to the big Gandhi Nagar garment market next door in East Delhi. The Apsara border on GT Road has long been a trading point between Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh. Leftover and faulty stock from this trade often sells cheaply in loose, unsorted lots. Sorted, honestly graded bundles can fetch better prices, because buyers know what they are getting.
You need a small godown, racks, a sorting table, good lighting, a phone camera and money to buy lots. The hard parts: quality changes from lot to lot, so check before you pay; some pieces carry another company's brand label, so buy only stock the seller has the right to sell, and never pass pieces off as a brand's new stock; and unsold stock ties up cash. Show faults clearly in photos, or buyers will not come back.
Start with a few shopkeepers in western Uttar Pradesh towns along GT Road and a few online resellers. Send weekly WhatsApp catalogues, and ship through transport companies near the border.
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