How to stock a market stall with t-shirts? I want to set up a market stall selling my t shirts

[Amber Hewitt]

I am wondering how it is best to stock my stall- do I print one design across a complete size range or just use different designs through the sizes. Im thinking I don't have a lot of space on a market stall so to stock a design in a complete range Will limit the amount of designs I can sell. When I shop for clothes I generally go to my size and obviously choose from what is available in my size(unless its a large retailer who will have every design on every size)hope that makes sense- so any advice on this would be great.

 

[fisicx]

You stock all designs in the popular sizes and reduce the range for the less popular sizes. But make sure you keep all designs in all sizes in the van so if a customer wants an XXXL wolf howling at the mood t-short you can quickly go get one.

As time goes on you will leasrn what sells and what doesn't and adjust your on display stock accordingly. There is no hard and fast rule, you just need to use your experience to know what to display.

One of the stall holders near us has all his boxes under the table so he can grab the right size in seconds.

 

[Amber Hewitt]

You stock all designs in the popular sizes and reduce the range for the less popular sizes. But make sure you keep all designs in all sizes in the van so if a customer wants an XXXL wolf howling at the mood t-short you can quickly go get one.

As time goes on you will leasrn what sells and what doesn't and adjust your on display stock accordingly. There is no hard and fast rule, you just need to use your experience to know what to display.

One of the stall holders near us has all his boxes under the table so he can grab the right size in seconds.

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Many thanks for that advice- that really helps me out, I thought having a design stocked with all sizes would be the way to go but wasn't 100% sure if I would be wasting stock however as you said, its all trial and error until I know which designs sell. So thanks again for helping me out on that ☺

 

[MBE2017]

Make sure you have the larger sizes available, massive market if you pardon the pun, badly served. Stock right up to xxxl min, and 5xl if possible. All the larger stocks sell fast.

 

[Amber Hewitt]

Make sure you have the larger sizes available, massive market if you pardon the pun, badly served. Stock right up to xxxl min, and 5xl if possible. All the larger stocks sell fast.

Many thanks for your reply. I have been selling t shirts online for a while and noticed this trend although I only ever stocked up to xxxl. I will definitely take your advice thou and stock up on the 4&5xl sizes.

 

[Mr D]

A market stall has a lot of space to display t-shirts. Hanging up too.
Can be a good idea to store selling t-shirts in plastic cartons, labelled up, below the table. The ones on the table will get handled, need washing occasionally.
And make sure the stock doesn't blow away.

 

[LiveNetworks Ltd]

I'd have though the answer is based on how you produce them. If you're screen printing, then you'll want to produce enough to justify the screen setup, if you're HTV or DyeSub, you can run off extra stock in an hour.

Also, for htv/sub do you have a press at the stall, in which case, have blank shirts to hand in the main colours / sizes and when you print the sub art work or run the htv, run off extra and keep them handy. It'll be a 2 minute job then to press extra stock as you need it.

 

[Ally Maxwell]

I'd have though the answer is based on how you produce them. If you're screen printing, then you'll want to produce enough to justify the screen setup, if you're HTV or DyeSub, you can run off extra stock in an hour.

Also, for htv/sub do you have a press at the stall, in which case, have blank shirts to hand in the main colours / sizes and when you print the sub art work or run the htv, run off extra and keep them handy. It'll be a 2 minute job then to press extra stock as you need it.

Assuming the presence of mains power......

 

[MOIC]

Start by printing in the following ratios:

S=1, M=2, L=3, XL=3, XXL=2, 3XL=1, 4XL=1, 5XL=1.

For repeat runs, check what ratio you are selling/sold and adjust accordingly.

Keep 1 of each size on a hanger on display (mixed prints) so customers can see the sizes.

The rest of the stock, keep folded each in a poly bag on the table, either categorized by size or by print, so it's easy to find the right size in the print asked for.

 

[Amber Hewitt]

Assuming the presence of mains power......

Hi, thanks for that- we use the magic touch heat transfer system so can produce t-shirts quickly however we aren't currently able to take our equipment to the markets with us yet. this is something we aim to do in the future though- just need to buy all of the relevant stuff (generator etc) for stalls that don't have electric.

 

[Amber Hewitt]

Start by printing in the following ratios:

S=1, M=2, L=3, XL=3, XXL=2, 3XL=1, 4XL=1, 5XL=1.

For repeat runs, check what ratio you are selling/sold and adjust accordingly.

Keep 1 of each size on a hanger on display (mixed prints) so customers can see the sizes.

The rest of the stock, keep folded each in a poly bag on the table, either categorized by size or by print, so it's easy to find the right size in the print asked for.

Hi, good tip- thank you not too much stock to have to worry about either