subject: What Are The Benefits Of A Pricing Gun? [print this page] Back in the old days, we had to place price tags on our products using a rather tedious method. We needed to take tiny stickers, write prices on them and stick them manually to the tops of cans, plastic containers and cardboard boxes. Not only did this use up valuable time, but there was substantial risk for an employee to place a price tag over crucial product information in their haste. This is, of course, not to mention the plethora of inconveniences that come with manual price tag affixing. Tags get stuck to your fingers, they stick to each other, you wipe your brow and suddenly your forehead is priced at $2.79.
Like a blessing from above, the Pricing Gun was invented. This device makes pricing products on a shelf an unbelievably simple matter. In some cases, it's even fun. In my time working at a convenience store, the most fun I had when the cops were not on-site was pricing products. These handy new price guns, though not terribly sophisticated, make putting price tags on products easy and efficient.
These tools are called "guns" because of the pistol grip that they employ. Pulling a "trigger" activates the printing mechanism, placing ink onto a sticker, and the sticker onto the product label or surface. Inside this tool are multiple cylinders that are manually rotated to set a sequence of digits and symbols. These include the digits from zero to nine and common currency notation. The user needs only to rotate the cylinders into the desired positions to produce one or a hundred identical labels, precisely to specification. Some "pricing guns" even include the feature to add remarks like "two for the price of one", "50 percent off", etc.
These Pricing gun Labels are easy to remove in the event that further discounting must take place at the place of business. However, a far more common practice is to apply a similar label over the original one. This is due to personal aggravations that can be encountered when scraping off labels, since a large amount of adhesive material becomes embedded under the fingernails of the person who is operating the pricing gun. Thankfully, due to the disposable nature of most items that are marked in this manner, this does not typically become a problem.
Garvey Pricing Guns have made marking of retail goods extremely rapid and efficient. Thanks to this technology, employees are able to devote most of their time to customer service, rather than time-consuming marking of products.
