Home-Based bag supplier for local businesses

Restaurants, grocery and convenience stores, cleaning companies, market vendors, small online sellers and property managers.

You earn the gap between your bulk purchase price and your wholesale price per case or pallet. Margins per case are modest, so repeat orders from regular customers matter.

• Selling to small businesses
• Comparing supplier prices
• Organised with orders and stock
• Basic bookkeeping

• Federal single-use plastics rules restrict some bags, such as checkout bags, so check which products you can still sell
• Check whether your province or municipality has extra plastic bag rules
• Check whether bags for food use need to be food-safe and ask suppliers for documentation
• Check if your municipality needs a home-based business licence and whether you can store stock at home
• Register for GST/HST once you pass the small supplier threshold
• Commercial general liability insurance
• Bulk purchases tie up cash, so start with small orders

Startup costs are typically estimated at around $1,000 to $6,000, depending on your first bulk orders, storage, insurance and supplier minimums. Bulk purchases tie up cash, so starting with small orders can help.

Monthly revenue is typically estimated at around $1,500 to $7,500, depending on your product range, customers and order sizes. Many people start part-time at around ten hours a week.

Check which products you can still sell under federal single-use plastics rules, and whether your province or municipality adds its own bag rules. Also check food-safe documentation, home-based business licensing and stock storage, GST/HST registration, and insurance.