Company operating M@C Discount to open Yinz Binz, feature smaller items
Same company, new deals.
That’s what M@C Discount is aiming to do when it opens its new Yinz Binz location at the site of the former Friedman’s Freshmarkets building at Greater Butler Mart in Butler Township.
Same company, new deals.
That’s what M@C Discount is aiming to do when it opens its new Yinz Binz location at the site of the former Friedman’s Freshmarkets building at Greater Butler Mart in Butler Township.
M@C Discount is an online retail liquidation auction that buys liquidated products and brings them into their warehouses to process them for sale.
The Yinz Binz location also will have an online auction side to it, but the main feature different from the other locations is it will offer merchandise for immediate purchase.
“It's a dollar store where the price changes every day,” M@C Co-owner Kellen Campbell said. “All new inventory gets put out each week. There will be these dump tables or bins with all this product in it.”
New products are brought into the Yinz Binz location each week, with prices changing depending on the day of the week.
On Monday prices of all items are $5, then $4 on Tuesdays, $3 on Wednesdays, $2 on Thursdays and 50 cents on Fridays.
“If you have five items and if it's Monday, that's $25,” Campbell said.
In most cases, the items sold at Yinz Binz will be smaller in size, such as toys, electronics, household items and more.
“The bin stuff will typically be stuff we sell through the pallets,” Campbell said. “Customers have told us they are interested in some of the stuff that’s in the pallets, but they don't want to buy the whole pallet. This now will give them an opportunity to purchase those items.”
M@C Discount at 360 Greater Butler Mart will continue normal operations once the new 30,240-square-foot facility is complete on the other end of the shopping plaza.
Campbell said M@C Discount is hoping for an August opening at the Butler Yinz Binz location.
“We are just waiting for some of the build-out to be completed,” Campbell said. “It was an old grocery store. All the old stuff was left, like refrigerators, shelves and racks. We had to knock some walls down and open it up a little bit.”
Regular Butler Yinz Binz store hours will run from noon to 6 p.m., but the company sells a Preferred Buyers Club membership, which allows members to begin shopping at 10 a.m.
“It’s $29.99 a month,” Campbell said. “That's an advantage because you don't have to deal with foot traffic. On the auction side you get two returns per month with interest free holds and extended pick up hours.”
Campbell said he and his management team are still working out the details as to what will happen to the unsold items that remain after Fridays, but he does have a few ideas in mind.
“We are going to see what that ends up being,” Campbell said. “Hopefully it's nothing. We could put those items into boxes and sell them as mystery boxes. The other option is throw them into the pallets for auction again.”
M@C Discounts also plans to open another Yinz Binz location in Uniontown in the near future, Campbell said, as well as other locations in their Ohio, North Carolina and South Carolina markets.
