Back-to-school shopping is the second biggest consumer spending event each year, totaling $72.5 billion in spending for back-to-school and college supplies. Most shoppers start their research on smartphones and then continue on laptops or PCs. Common supplies for high school and college students include laptops, planners, binders, pens, highlighters, folders, graphing calculators, flash drives, pencils, hand sanitizer and more. Shoplet is an online retailer that specializes in back-to-school and office supplies.

2. Back to School is the second biggest consumer spending event and hit an
all-time high in 2012.
$30.3 Billion
$688 was the average spending for back-to-school clothing and supplies
Back-to-school combined with back-to-college spending will reach: 72.5
Billion This Year

3. ONLINE RETAIL SALES 2012
15% 4%

4. Back to school shoppers are undecided
Consumers are shopping for them selves
Consumers are taking a multi-device platform for purchase.
 61% start on smartphone
 Then continue on PC/Laptop

5. ONE THING TO REMEBER
Back to school shoppers are undecided
More than 1 in 4 compared prices
online/mobile before
72% prefer to research what back-to-
school supplies, electronics and apparels
child needs

6. LIST OF BASIC SUPPLIES
• Laptop
• Colleges and universities around the country are making it a must
have for college students.
• It is the most expensive supply college students need to get for
school

7. PLANNER
 It is of UTMOST importance that your adolescent
maintain his/her academic planner– academic
planners teach students time management skills.

8. BINDERS
• Binders are a must for college students
• Each binder should be reserved for a specific class t” should be reserved for a
specific class
Encourage diligent note taking
 Students who take good notes do a better job at listening during
class
 Good notes give students a better starting point for studying
 Students should read over the notes he/she took everyday before
class

9. COLOR BALL PENS & HIGHLIGHTERS
• Color-coding, hi-lighting, and underlining are important habits for your high
schooler to acquire when reading important school-related material
• Benefits of color-coding:
• Improves study morale
• Studies show that students who study color coded material score higher than
students who study conventional black and white formats
• Color coded material means fewer eye fixations, which means that studying
becomes a much more fluid and enjoyable process

10. POCKET FOLDERS
To transport all homework, creative writing
brilliance, and everything in between!
It’s useful to color code pocket folders
according to subject
 For instance:
Green= Earth Science; Yellow= Trigonometry;
Etc.

11. TI 83 + CALCULATOR
A graphing calculator is a necessity for students who will
engage in more serious math subjects like algebra and
trigonometry.
 Don’t let your high schooler convince you that the graphing
calculator apps on his/her smart phone are acceptable. Most
teachers find the usage of cell phones absolutely unacceptable and
insist upon graphing calculators instead.

12. FLASH DRIVE
• Flash drives are a crucial item for students to own.
Flash drives enable students to work on the same
project both at home or various locations across
campus.
• While online software systems, like Dropbox, provide
services that are similar to that of a flash drive, flash
drives provide extra assurance to students, since it
guarantees that all of his/her assignments will be in on
time.

13. PENCILS
Testing usually requires the use of a #2 pencils. Do NOT have your student be
without one!

14. HAND SANITIZER
• Nearly 22 million days of school are missed annually
due to the common cold
• A case control study of 6,080 schools reported that
those who enforced classroom-dispensed instant
hand sanitizer at specific times throughout the day
experienced 20% fewer absences due to illness

15. Shoplet is the leading purely online office supply retailer. Founded in
1994, Shoplet is one of the original e-marketplaces.
We specialize in everything and everything back-to-school as well as
office supplies, break room supplies, and cleaning and
maintenance equipment.