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The Lost Art Of Pricing Labels
Sometimes it is like modern retailers have given up on pricing guns all together. It is as if they are making knowing the price of things more and more difficult. Like it is some sort of trick to get you to pay more than you’d expect for an item. You walk around practically any store [...]
Victory Requires A Pricing Gun
It’s another night at work and you have the late night shift with the creepy guy. There are no customers coming in anymore and your manager asked if you can go around the aisles fixing the price tags for the upcoming sale. Off you slunk to the nearest aisle. You start your job off well. [...]
Get Price Tagging Labels Ready for Summer Sales
Summer is a great time to have sales in your retail store. The weather is beautiful, everyone is out and about, schools are out so you get a lot of teenagers shopping, it’s all around a great time for people to be out and heading to the mall. So you want to make sure that [...]
Fresh Ink for Your Monarch 1131
Replacement needles, check. New roll of pricing labels, check. Extra ink…? Yes, we often forget that in order for our nice new Monarch 1131 pricing gun to work, we need ink in that bad boy. Otherwise, you’ll have nice smudgy labels and eventually, blank labels. When the ink starts to go, you immediately think it’s [...]
Managing Your Time Better By Having Supplies on Hand
When you operate a retail business, you learn that time management is one of the more important assets you can have. Time is literally worth money in many situations. One of those situations is the staff meeting. If you are paying employees 10 dollars an hour and have them sit for three hours of a [...]
The Benefits of Modern Pricing Guns
Fifty years ago they had no idea what modern price tagging guns would become. If they could have had the chance to see a Monarch 1131, they would probably have been frightened and aghast at how fast it shoots Garvey labels. A single modern pricing gun is like twelve old-school pricing guns. But back then [...]
Make Room and Slash Pricing Labels
April has reached it’s midway point and I bet your store is already thinking about its summer merchandise –which will probably arrive sometime in May. In order to prepare for new items, you have to get rid of all the old ones first. Before a new season’s shipment comes in, began to make room. Take [...]
Sale Pricing Labels Should Attract the Eye
Sales are the real way to attract some traffic into your store. One, it gets rid of old merchandise quickly to make space for new things. Two, people come in for the sale, but could possibly walk out with other items not on sale, boosting profits. And while an ad in the paper works as [...]
Pricing Labels Are Important to the Shopaholic
You may know a serious shopper, or you may be one yourself. That may even be why you got into the retail business in the first place. And every shopaholic, unless they are rolling dough, knows how to make the most of their budget so they can still shop often without breaking the bank. And [...]
Jammed Pricing Guns
I’ve spent a lot of time discussing how reliable and awesome the right kind of price tagging gun can be. Indeed, I’ve loved one or two models in my life. That said, no one is perfect. Sometimes we can be a little rough in our rush to get a case of cough syrup priced in [...]
