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Garage Sale Junkie? Get a Price Tagging Gun

My abuela and her friend Láura love garage sales. They have a method to their madness: every Saturday morning, after breakfast of Cuban toast and café con leche, they’re out the door by 7 a.m. and then they hit the streets in Láura’s white Buick LeSabre. They’re armed with flyers advertising different sales, and cruise [...]

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Make Sure You Have Ink Rollers For Your Tagging Guns

As a retail professional, my two biggest pet peeves in the industry are not having enough tagging guns or not having any ink rollers to get your tagging guns going. I remember one day, my boss asked me to come and do some overnight stock. It’s overtime, so I didn’t mind, plus I kind of [...]

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Get Your Prices Right

I can’t stand when I when I walk into a store and there are no pricing labels. How am I supposed to know if I want to buy something if I don’t know how much it costs? Maybe the 12 oz. is more practical than the 16 oz. Maybe the 24 oz. is more cost [...]

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My Friend, The Price Tagger

Did you ever have one of those friends who had a labeler? It was basically a price tagging gun that he used to tag things around his house with. He would mark up pens and fruit around his home with his name or pretend prices. His mother would tell him to stop tagging the cat; [...]

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The Retailer Party

When I see those rolls of cashier register paper, I think of unrolling them and having a party. Prince will be playing in the background, on a stage, and there will be rolls of cashier register paper hanging from the ceiling; people will be throwing them into the air and letting them unfurl as they [...]

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The Professionalism of Pricing Labels

Have you ever been to the grocery store, chosen an item, and been completely unable to find the price for it? You roll it over, look all around it, then look at the shelf. You can read the little script on the price tag with a price for a different item, but nowhere on the [...]

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The Monarch 1131!

The Monarch 1131 features some of the companies most renowned product quality, such as new improvements and features that make switching ink rolls easier than ever.

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Interesting Facts About Pricing and Labeling Guns

Price guns were patented in 1899 and have been a vital tool for the retail industry since. The pricing guns used in most stores today use the same fundamental technology invented more than one hundred years ago. In fact, Sato International from Japan, one of the first companies in the world to produce price tagging [...]

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Big Savings When You Buy Garvey

Garvey labels are a staple purchase for any retailer, they’re reliable and a brand you can trust. And for good reason—they’ve been making quality retail labels and guns for 40 years. In addition to being high-quality, the products are user friendly making it easy for ages 8-80 to operate properly. Whether you need a one-line [...]

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A Good Price Tagging Gun Is Crucial

Anyone who owns a retail store, knows that a key element of success is a good price tagging gun or two. There’s nothing more irritating than getting a new shipment of inventory in, only to find that the price tagging gun is broken or tagging improperly. My mother owns a small antique shop and I [...]

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