Posts Tagged ‘pricing guns’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wild West and Pricing Guns, Or Lack Thereof
Wild western pricing gun labels probably didn’t exist. If you wanted to buy something at Quinn’s general store, you just asked Quinn how much it cost. And that was that. Coffee was like fifteen cents. Granted this was a hundred an fifty years ago. So you know. But still, baking powder, coffee, hominy, bacon rind. [...]
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 [...]
