Dropshipping Business Opportunities: Grocery (Coffee)

Selling coffee online is a great opportunity to make money from home. Dropshipping is an ideal order fulfillment method for selling coffee while avoiding inventory risk. With the right dropship supplier, you can buy at real wholesale prices and offer fast shipping to your customers all over the United States. Find your target niche market and start selling gourmet coffee online. Check our list of best coffee products to sell online.


Check out my previous article on where to look for dropshipping business opportunities.


A man water coffee tree plant
Photo Courtesy of Marley Coffee

Niche Opportunities for Selling Coffee Online

Selling coffee lends itself well to finding specific niche products and market. For example, younger demographics are leading in coffee consumption in the United States. Targeting a specific audience and marketing your products to them is a good strategy. If you are selling gourmet coffee, for instance, it would probably be a good idea to offer targeted promotions or content for your niche audience.

Before you can do that, you must know your audience. In general, consuming gourmet coffee conveys a feeling of intellectuality. (Consider the commonly integrate gourmet coffee shops and local bookstores or the partnership of Barnes&Nobles and Starbucks). The consumer feels civilized, sipping their nitro cold brew in a coffee shop. Similarly, they might feel special, smelling the aroma of their french press gourmet coffee, which they ordered online.

Think about all the new generation gourmet coffee shops with artistic, creative, and hipster atmosphere. They are designed that way because this is what their target markets like to find in a coffee shop. You must also define your specific target market while selling coffee online. Create a distinctive persona and appeal to her/him. Consider your persona while designing your website or creating its content. Find the niche products they would love to buy and list them on eBay, Amazon or sell them in your own online store!

Consider Recent Trends in Coffee Consumption

According to the National Coffee Association`s The National Coffee Drinking Trends report, the percentage of Americans drinking coffee on a daily basis increased to 62% in 2017, up from 57% the previous year. The report also suggests that “among the drivers behind the increase was soaring consumer enthusiasm for gourmet coffee varieties across most demographics.”

NCA has been conducting National Coffee Drinking report annually since the 1950s. They reveal very important data that reflects coffee consumers` attitudes. Such statistical data is very important for coffee sellers. You can also use this data to your advantage. It can prove to be very useful while defining your specific audience.

Things to Consider While Dropshipping Coffee

Dropshipping coffee is a great way to sell coffee online while avoiding the inventory risk. There is a good variety of coffee brands that you can sell. All you need is a reliable supplier that can fulfill your orders. Marketing to a specific niche audience, finding niche products, and a good strategy for driving traffic to your store will increase your chances of success.

Greendropship.com has a wide variety of natural, organic coffee products that you can sell online. We offer fast shipping, negotiated shipping rates. and true wholesale prices. With most drop ship suppliers, you have to sell most grocery items as packs instead of eaches. So, you are forced to list your products in packs in e-commerce marketplaces or your Shopify store. This may affect your sales because some customers prefer to buy these items individually. Greendropship.com dropships grocery items individually or in packs, depending on the retailer`s preferences while sticking to true wholesale prices regardless.

Best Coffee to Sell Online

Community Coffee Premium Ground Coffee, Signature Dark Roast

Community Coffee Signature Dark Roast

  • Roast: Dark – Body: Full – Brightness: Low.
  • Rich and bold.
  • Made with 100% select Arabica coffee beans.
  • High-quality coffee sourced, blended, and roasted with 4 generations of family care.

Originating from New Orleans, it is hard to find this product in many local stores around the United States. As a result, many consumers turn to e-commerce to purchase this product. For instance, there are reviews on Amazon, expressing gratitude for its availability in Amazon marketplace.

 

 

Community Coffee Signature Dark Roast Sales Data Rank
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Its impressive sales rank data shows how hot this product is. There are loyal customers of this brand, which would love to the product in your store. Hence, this product is a good opportunity for repeat business. It might be a good idea to make it available for monthly subscription. While other dropshipping suppliers offer this coffee in 6 packs, it is available individually at greendropship.com.

 

Marley Coffee, Organic Whole Bean Coffee

Marley Coffee Organic Whole Bean Coffee

  • 2 Pound Whole Bean Coffee
  • 100% Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
  • Medium bodied with fruity, aromatic and winey undertones
  • Sustainably Grown
  • ITAL; Kicks for a Cause; Ethically Farmed, Artisan Roasted; USDA Approved; Kosher

 

Inspired by the legendary Reggae artist Bob Marley, this organic coffee brand rich, bold, and low-acidic taste that many people love. Rohan Marley, one of Bob Marley`s twelve children, is the co-founder of this coffee brand. With their commitment to sustainable and organic farming, they earned a lot of respect from consumers, who are nature-friendly.

 

 

Marley Coffee Sales Data
Source: CamelCamelCamel

Different flavors and sizes of Marley Coffee are very hot on third-party e-commerce marketplaces. The sales rank data above shows its ranking on Amazon, which is looking quite high.

Marley`s One Drop ready to drink coffee is also available in GreeDropShip`s inventory.  While it is available in 12-packs in other suppliers, it is possible to sell them individually with greenropship.com.

Kicking Horse Coffee, Dark Roast

 Kicking Horse Coffee

  • Dark Roast.
  • Indonesia & South America.
  • Sweet, Smoky, Audacious.
  • Fairtrade, Organic, Kosher.
  • Roasted in Canada.

Here is a perfect coffee to advertise to your specific niche market. Selling coffee to adventurous, free-spirited young people, who are environmentally conscious? If that`s the case, this product is perfect for your store.

Kicking Horse Coffee Sales Data
Source: CamelCamelCamel

As you can see from the sales rank data above, we saved the hottest product for the last. Sales rank for this product has been very high in Amazon, showing the enormous demand for this product.

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Author: Ugur Ozturk
Ugur Ozturk is a 23-year-old Penn State graduate, who is a Content Writer at GreenDropShip.com. Multiple futile interventions from his friends could not stop his hopeless addiction to writing and drinking coffee. He has a long-held passion for writing short stories or blogs, watching soccer, and having cold brew coffee in a hot day. His biggest fears are trypophobia, having to drink decaf coffee or non-alcaholic beer!