Cash Register Paper
We spend a lot of time on this blog trying to show how fun price tagging guns and pricing labels are and exploring the necessity and functionality of both. The Retailer Source though, is also a source for all matters and sizes of cash register paper. This is one of our not so heavily publicized wings of the website. We have register tape to fit all manners of cash registers and it is all at the great discounted prices we have always applied to our price tagging guns.
When you first start a business you will find yourself surprised by a lot of the unexpected costs but cash register paper took me by surprise specifically. It is just the sort of thing you run through a lot of very quickly. Well hopefully that is the case because that means there is a lot of commerce in your midst. Still it can feel troublesome to be using something so fast and running up your business’s bottom line. That bottom line is important to get a handle on early in a business’s life. Buying your cash register paper from a trusted name like The Retailer Source is a great first step to getting control of those finances.
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The Great Price Tagging War Part 2: The Not So Great Conclusion
Were this price tagging gun war an actual gun battle, Edgar’s Pharmacy would have been a blood bath. Bystanders and cans of soup were all properly filed and priced. As the dust settled it became clear that there would be no clear victor in this battle. Instead I was now forced to share my turf. If you are the kind of guy who enjoys pricing things on shelves you get a little itchy at the idea of having to share your terrain and this new guy was really getting in my craw. The pharmacy was not going to need another pricing label for at least another two weeks while old man Edgar sold down the already priced items.
As the days went on, every stop on my usual price tagging gun route was being haunted by this new guy. Eventually I snapped. “Why are you hogging all my turf?!” He seemed shocked at first, and then resigned. It seemed he had been looking for a town to work his price tagging gun magic for months and he’d been chased out of everyone by a guy just like me. Before I could respond he slowly walked out of the store and out of my life. I had won in the least eventful way possible.
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The Great Price Tagging War
I am mighty quick draw with my price tagging gun. For years no one in town has ever even thought about trying to out label me. Sure some young hot shots have talked up their draw but when push came to shove, they backed down and I remained the hottest Monarch 1131 this side of the Mason Dixon. I could strut into any retail spot in town and demand a job and I’d get it. I was simply that good.
‘Til one day I showed up at old man Edgar’s Pharmacy looking to fire off a few rounds of pricing labels just to keep my brain sharp. When I got there I saw a new fellow pricing up Band-Aids. He was fast, real fast. Momentarily I might have lost my cool but when he tuned to me and our eyes met, I gave him the coldest stare I had in me. He returned it in kind and I started pricing bottles of Tylenol coolly but also as quickly as I ever had before. He started firing labels at the deodorant. We were having a label off. It was on. When the dust settled it appeared that it could have been anyone’s game. This town was about to have a price labeling war the like of which had never been seen before or since…
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Garvey Labels
Looking to spruce up and specify your price tagging situation? Let me clarify. Do you want to make your labels jump out at your customer and assert that your product and or price is “special”? Do you want to label meat as “meat” on a pricing label? It seems like a good idea doesn’t it? Don’t get out a pen and start practicing writing microscopic text. Instead check out Garvey labels. They have a wealth of fun options to make your pricing labels more specific and your business all the more charming.
No one really considers the charm in pricing labels but they really can look better than just plain black text on a plain white background. Garvey labels are made in different colors and have different designs for bordering and framing your price. These labels can brighten up your store in a big way. Business owners should probably think a little bit more about how they are presenting their products prices. To put it on a clean nice looking label really makes your shop look great.
There is a disastrous close out store near our office. Their labels look like garbage. It is a real turn off as a paying customer. Maybe they should try out some Garvey labels.
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Easy To Fix Price Tagging Guns
The mechanics of a price tagging gun are really pretty intuitive. If you have ever opened one of these guys up in order to load them with pricing labels they are fairly easy to figure out. 
This is why they are so conveniently easy to repair should a jam occur. Back in my days as a shelf stocker I unclogged my fair share of price tagging guns. Generally the problems would occur if I did not allow the action enough time to recover after pulling the trigger. A fresh pricing label would queue up before the initial one had time to get out. Then boom jam.
Luckily because these guns generally open up in a way that you can see the entire mechanism for moving labels finding the source of the jam and fixing the gun is easy enough for anyone qualified to use the gun to do.
These guns are completely fool proof it turns out. Anyone could pick them up and price up a box full of Trident and anyone could reload the labels if it comes down to it. It is what the world might call a no brainer. This is a lucky break for all of the stock boys and girls through out the retail industry. Sound, easy to understand design goes a long way.
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Monarch 1131: The Cadillac of Pricing Guns
All price tagging guns are not created equally. Some brands are shoddy with unimpressive and ineffective construction and parts. Other times there is simply a known tendency towards error. As in when a price tagging gun for no good reason begins to back up. That said there is one sure fire brand name when it comes to price tagging guns that can not be beat. I am talking of course about the Monarch line of pricing guns.
The Monarch 1131 has been called the Cadillac of price tagging guns. It is heavy duty and built to last. An investment in a gun of this high quality gun like the Monarch 1131 could last you a lifetime in retail. It is a solid piece of equipment and a fantastic tool to have around any sort of retail space. If you’re serious about keeping your business around for a long time one of these guns is definitely your best choice.
The store I worked at for more than a decade through junior high school, high school and then college invested in two Monarch 1131‘s a long time ago. They still function, they are still every employees preferred pricing guns and they don’t show any sign of falling apart yet.
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Retail, The Good Old Days
Anyone with retail experience knows it is not always easy. Some of those days where nothing happens for hoursat a time can drag on for what feels like weeks. Every now and again you get some nightmarish customer who seems to have made it the primary goal of his or her day to make you miserable. Some coworkers are barely workers at all. Still though, if you work at a store for a while and suddenly find yourself out of the retail game you may be surprised by the occasional pangs of nostalgia and even in some cases a genuine sense of longing for your retail days.
I can remember my days stocking shelves, putting pricing labels on Pampers, ringing a register for more than a decade. Distance has been kind enough fro my to look at my days in the Village Shoppe with great fondness, not that I would be eager to go back. Still I recall standing around holding my trusty price tagging gun thinking more than once “This isn’t all bad.” I liked some of the folks we served and I enjoyed my coworkers. I found the job to not have the impending doomy pressure of many of my office jobs. Yeah it was sort of nice.
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Sentimental Possession of Tagging Guns
It is one thing to ask a fellow who has worked at one branch of a supermarket chain for over a decade to change branches, it’s rough but it is in a way understandable. To make that same employee give up their trusted price tagging gun is another thing entirely. When you have clocked as many hours with a particular price tagging gun as my uncle had, it becomes a very important touchstone of your employment accomplishments. Advances from lowly man on staff to manager, from a guy who worked part time to a salaried, benefit garnering employee. That gun is sometimes the only constant.
To move to another branch with all that experience and no physical reminder of your logged hours to show for it seems cruel. This is why I believe supermarket chains should be more sensitive to the needs of their employees to carry the same tagging guns with them into new employment opportunities. It is a good way to keep some things consistent for the most loyal of employees. My uncle has since acclimated to his new place of work and to his new price tagging gun, which is not to say that he doesn’t still miss his old one not to mention his old coworkers and customers. But life moves on.
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Avoiding Mistakes With Pricing Labels
Look, everyone makes mistakes. This goes for all employees at a local shop. Any body could slip up and miscount a register or mislabel a product, but the more care you put in to pricing gun labels the better chances everyone has of catching a mistake. This is why we put prices on products at a store, so that everyone can see what it costs. It is not simply a courtesy to customers but a courtesy to the entire supply chain.
Making sure pricing information is stated clearly and consistently is the job of whom ever you have stocking your shelves. You give them a pricing gun and they are to use it with your instruction. It makes the entire staff work smoother when prices are clearly stated on an item. It also makes purchases smoother for your customers. It seems absurd sometimes that folks working behind the counter at a store might mis-charge something but it happens. Keeping it from happening is the work of management, as well as the work of pricing labels. If you get all of these parts working seamlessly together you might be surprised at how much money you will save. It is as if everyone might just be perfect at their jobs.
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Kids And Price Tagging Guns
When you are young and a boy, anything you play with that looks or feels like a weapon is captivating, cool and potentially dangerous. My father worked at the local general store when I was a kid. During the day my Mom would occasionally clean houses just to supplement their income. I am super grateful to my parents for their sacrifice not just because they managed to keep me and my bro in private school for a while but because I got to spend whole 
days at the store! That meant hours of coloring, egg sandwiches and playing with the ultimate shopping center plaything: a pricing gun.
I would run up and down the aisles of the store and roll around shooting, or pretending to shoot, pricing labels at tons of fake foes. Sometimes friendly customers would play along, other times less enjoyable customers would get mad and I would be moved back to my coloring books in the storage room. Still I look back at those times really fondly. I liked meeting people. I loved seeing my Dad at work. And I loved that price tagging gun. There was no toy like it in my collection, or that of anyone else I knew.
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