Great Lakes Wholesale Group is a retail store supplier providing quality wholesale Health & Beauty, Household, General Merchandise, OTC, Pet, Grocery and other wholesale merchandise for local, national and international discount, convenience, dollar, grocery retailers and distributors. Great Lakes Wholesale Group was one of the first to supply of a broad line of wholesale dollar items and closeouts to independent retailers over 25 years ago. We sell by the case, but most of our case packs are only 12-24 pieces, so you can get a wider variety of products on each order. While wholesale dollar items remain an important segment of our business, we've expanded our line to include dollar plus closeouts, wholesale general merchandise and discount consumables. All of our items are selected to enable the independent store owner to compete successfully with Walmart, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar and other national discount retailers. Great Lakes Wholesale Group is the Midwest's leading wholesale discount store supplier, and this website is the best place to order wholesale discount products for your store.

We distribute continuity and closeout items, including food and grocery, cleaning supplies, general merchandise, health care, and personal care products by the case. Our successful customers include hardware stores, dollar stores, discount stores, convenience stores, supermarkets, as well as other retail outlets and other wholesalers.

Browse our online catalog to see all of our items. To view prices, please register your email address and click on the confirmation email. Great Lakes Wholesale Group supplies nonprofits and retail stores. We are exclusively wholesale, with a minimum order size of one pallet of mixed product.

Our Wholesale Products:
We carry a wide variety of wholesale food, snacks, and candy. Retailers can stock an entire section of their store with our cookies, crackers, nuts, popcorn, and chips and other wholesale food and snack items. You'll find both dollar foods and over a dollar food in these categories. Customers from around the world work with us to export food and other items to provide affordable American food products to their customers.

Our general merchandise hardlines category includes kitchen tools, household maintenance items, stationery and craft supply, gift wrap and bags, and candles. You will find many items with small case packs perfect for your retail store. Again you'll see that we have dollar general merchandise and extreme value over a dollar merchandise as well.

Other wholesale product categories we supply include: Household Paper and Cleaning Supplies. You will find disposable tableware, plastic food storage bags, aluminum foil and pans, air fresheners, and laundry detergents and supplies. We carry brands such as LA's Totally Awesome Cleaners®, Spic and Span®, Pine Glo®, The Works®, and Comet®.

Our combination with jmk-iit in 2014 added over 2,000 tool and hardware items to our offering. Jmk-iit is one of the nation’s leading suppliers of value tools and hardware to independent hardware stores and discount warehouses.

Seasonally, we have a wide variety of winter wear gloves, hats, and scarves. We also bring in special seasonal items for holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter to keep your retail store shelves exciting. For summer fun we are the source for exciting wholesale beach and pool toys.

Many of our retail store customers find that carrying pet products gives them a competitive advantage over other stores. We supply food and treats for dogs, cats, and birds. We also have pet accessories such as cat litter, leashes, grooming tools, and pet bowls and pet toys. Dollar pet items and over a dollar pet items can provide better than average margins, due to the high prices normally charged in the national pet chains for these items.

Two of our bestselling categories are Health Care and Beauty and Personal Care. We supply over-the-counter medicine, first aid and sports supplies, soap, shampoo, deodorant, and toothbrushes and toothpaste under our own Health Care label in addition to a regularly changing supply of private label OTC closeout choices. Dollar health and beauty items were one of our first wholesale categories.

Become a customer:
All of our items are warehoused in Bolingbrook, IL and we work with a variety of freight carriers to provide you with the best shipping rates. We ship our products throughout the United States, Canada, and internationally. We have many successful international customers that have found our supply of retail products extremely profitable and can help you build an export container of products that will thrill your local customers. Visit our Bolingbrook or Chicago showroom to see our wholesale products and closeouts. Discover why so many retailers have made Great Lakes Wholesale Group their retail store supplier.
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