Posts Tagged ‘monarch 1131’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
DIY Price Tags
There are a lot of ways to price things. You can use price guns, or tie or staple tags — depending on what the item is you could even just write it directly on. (Many secondhand booksellers pencil in the prices on the inside cover.) If you want to shake things up a bit and [...]
Check Out the Retailer Source Finder Wizard
If you’re looking to buy some price guns and pricing labels, but you’re not sure quite where to start, try the Retailer Source’s Price Gun & Label Finder Wizard. It’s a nifty little feature on the site that asks you a series of questions to help you find exactly what you need. It will first [...]
Want To Spice Up Your Price Tagging Gun?
If you work at a department or convenience store, and one of your primary responsibilities is tagging items with a pricing gun, you probably get a little, well, sick of it after a while. There’s not a whole lot you can do to break up the potential monotony, but you can at least make the [...]
Before There Were Pricing Guns…
…People had to write out the prices for everything. It might not have been so bad for people with small shops who had what, 10 things to sell? But people with dozens upon dozens of items had to not only write everything out but attach everything one at a time — possibly with string. Now, [...]
Bob Barker Hospitalized
This happened a few weeks ago, but we still feel a need to mention it, as it involves the man most deserving to be holding a Monarch 1131 price tagging gun: The original host of television’s The Price Is Right, Bob Barker. The former host was recently hospitalized after he collapsed while at a gun [...]
