Melissa Mapel of Newcomerstown has been shopping for pallets and reselling gadgets for 10 years
COSHOCTON − All kinds of name-brand gadgets at low costs is what the brand new Dippity Dog Discount gives the group.
The retailer just lately opened in a single half of the Honey House on Main Street, former home to Sue’s Hallmark. It’s owned and operated by Melissa Mapel, who’s initially from Zanesville and now lives in Newcomerstown. Family helps her operating with the shop.
She beforehand owned an analogous retailer in Cambridge now beneath a brand new proprietor. Mapel has been shopping for pallets at bulk and reselling for about 10 years. Mapel buys 12 to 24 pallets at a time with merchandise coming from Amazon, Target, JCPenney and others.
The store receives new gadgets almost each day with costs about half or decrease than what huge field shops supply, she stated. Big sellers to this point have been rest room paper, blanket units, air fryers and Squishmallows.
“We attempt to hold every little thing low, as a result of there are lots of people who cannot afford the upper costs,” Mapel stated. “One girl advised me that is her new Dollar Store.”
Mapel has levels in advertising and laptop graphics programming multi-media.
“It’s all a shock. It’s like Christmas, you by no means know what you are going to get,” Mapel stated of opening new shipments.
Dippity Dog Discount at 422 Main St. is open 9 a.m. to five p.m. seven days every week. They will be known as at 740-824-0126, emailed at [email protected] and located on Facebook.
Leonard Hayhurst is a group content material coordinator and basic information reporter for the Coshocton Tribune with greater than 15 years of native journalism expertise and a number of awards from the Ohio Associated Press. He will be reached at 740-295-3417 or [email protected]. Follow him on X (previously Twitter) at @llhayhurst.
