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RetailA Boutique's Guide to Dust Bag Margins
For boutiques that bundle a dust bag with every purchase, the packaging line item is easy to overlook — but getting the volume tier right can meaningfully change your landed cost per unit, and therefore your effective margin on every sale.
Understand your landed cost
Landed cost includes the per-unit price at your order quantity plus shipping to your location, divided across every unit. Because our pricing improves as order size grows, doubling your order quantity often lowers landed cost enough to offset the larger up-front spend within a single selling season.
Pricing tiers to plan around
Most boutiques settle into one of three tiers: a starter tier around our 100–500 piece minimum for testing a new packaging look, a growth tier around 1,000–2,500 pieces once the packaging is proven, and a full-program tier above 5,000 pieces for stores bagging every purchase year-round.
| Tier | Typical quantity | Best fabric |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 100–500 | Cotton or Non-Woven |
| Growth | 1,000–2,500 | Cotton or Flannel |
| Full program | 5,000+ | Non-Woven |
Don’t undercount the marketing value
A branded dust bag that a customer reuses functions as free, ongoing marketing every time it’s seen — which is a real, if hard-to-line-item, contributor to your effective margin beyond the unit cost alone.
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