Let’s talk about a small problem in produce / stockfeed / garden centre businesses that costs more than it should.
Stock in a produce or farm supply business does not all live indoors. Fencing, posts, troughs, tanks, pallets of bagged feed, landscaping supplies. It sits in the yard through summer and through rain, and the label sits there with it.
Then the label fades. Or it lifts. Or it goes soft and unreadable. Now the item cannot be scanned, so someone at the counter types a price from memory, or walks out to look, or guesses. Multiply that by a busy Saturday.
Tower Systems software for produce / stockfeed / farm supply businesses supports weatherproof labelling for stock stored outdoors. Labels that stay legible regardless of the conditions, so the item can still be scanned in six months.
What matters here is not the label. It is what depends on the label being readable.
Scanning is what keeps a stock file accurate. Every keyed price and every guess is a small error in the data, and those errors compound into reports nobody trusts. A retailer who stops trusting the stock file stops using it, and then the software is just a cash register. Scanning is the habit the Tower Systems software for produce / stockfeed / farm supply businesses is built to protect.
Accurate scanning also protects margin on exactly the lines where margin is thin. Yard stock is often heavy, bulky, competitively priced and slow to move. It is the last place a price from memory belongs.
A few practical notes. Label size matters outdoors, since bigger survives handling better. Position matters, because sun and water hit some faces harder than others. And bin or shelf labelling is often the better answer for stock that is stacked rather than individually tagged.
It is a ten-minute conversation that removes a daily irritation.
If outdoor stock in your business is hard to scan, give us an example and we will test this for you, to show what a weatherproof label will look like. If we can’t fit on the detail you need, that’s vital to your business, we will say so and let you know our software may not be right for your needs.
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Contact us: sales@towersystems.com.au or 1300 662 957 or research us: www.towersystems.com.au. Locally made. Locally supported.
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