Carrie Rengers

Do you like crazy-good liquidation deals? This new Wichita store may be for you

The owners of El Rio Bravo Supermarket are opening Crazy Bin Store just down from their Seneca store to sell liquidated items from places such as Amazon and Walmart.
The owners of El Rio Bravo Supermarket are opening Crazy Bin Store just down from their Seneca store to sell liquidated items from places such as Amazon and Walmart. Courtesy illustration

If deals such as a 50-inch TV for $12 or a microwave for $9 sound appealing — or even too good to be true — you may need to check out Wichita’s new Crazy Bin Store to see for yourself.

The owners of El Rio Bravo Supermarket are opening the concept at 2531 S. Seneca, which is a couple of doors down from one of their two Wichita Rio Bravo stores. They also have a Rio Bravo in Kansas City, and they may open more Crazy Bin stores depending on how this first one goes.

“We get the good stuff,” said Hakim Halum, who owns the businesses with his brother and uncle.

They’ll get liquidated items from retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Target.

“We’re not going to get anything that’s broken,” Halum said. “Everything’s going to be in good, good shape.”

There will be “just a lot of random stuff,” he said, but also “a lot of expensive stuff.”

That could be TVs, phones, AirPods and electronics.

The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except for Thursdays. That’s when new shipments will arrive and be loaded onto tables at the store.

On Fridays, everything will be $12 for “whatever is on the table. Whatever comes in.”

Saturdays, everything will be $9, and Sundays, everything will be $7. Mondays, everything will be $5, Tuesdays, everything will be $3, and on Wednesdays, Crazy Bin will become a dollar store.

So if the store has something such as a 50-inch TV, why not have a table for say, $50 or more?

“Since it’s a liquidation store . . . we get everything at low cost,” Halum said.

Crazy Bin will open Sept. 30.

The store already has a Facebook page, and Halum said, “It looks like customers are very excited.”

“We’ve seen these businesses in other states and figured in Wichita, there’s nothing like that.”

He said a store like this makes sense, “especially these days with the tough times and all.”

“We’re expecting a lot of people.”

Things may get, well, crazy.

“We might need security. You’re right.”

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Carrie Rengers
The Wichita Eagle
Carrie Rengers has been a reporter for more than three decades, including more than 20 years at The Wichita Eagle. If you have a tip, please e-mail or tweet her or call 316-268-6340.
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