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Adding barbecue rubs and sauces to your grilling section helps to round out the category and encourages impulse purchases from customers who are already shopping for outdoor cooking equipment. As the summer months approach and customers move outdoors for grilling season, stock these four barbecue sauces and rubs.
Sauce
The Cherry Habanero BBQ sauce from Kosmos Q is made with real cherries and has a mild heat rating. The sauce comes in a squeeze bottle and is sold in a case of six.
The Cackalacky BBQ Sauces 16-oz Mixed Case is a sauce starter kit that includes three sauce flavors: Cheerwine Sweet Sauce, Secret Sauce and Bold Gold. The pack includes four bottles of each sauce flavor and the sauces have a shelf life of over 36 months.
Rubs
The Maui Wowee Hawaiian Teriyaki Rub from Spiceology is a blend of brown sugar, garlic, pineapple powder, black sesame seeds and tamari soy granules, creating a spicy-sweet combination of flavors for a variety of foods. The rub comes in a 5.5-ounce or 18-ounce container and is gluten-free and vegan.
The Knucklehead Rub from the Great American Spice Company is a sweet, zesty rub ideal for use on chicken, pork and beef. Made with turbinado sugar, seasoning salt and dried chiles among other spices, the rub comes in sizes from 6-oz to 50 lbs.
