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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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