this tipsy is crazy simple:  use stickers for your price tags.  whether you’re high-tech and use bar code scanners and UPCs or if you’re a hand-written sort of person – it is smart to print the price info on a sticker – which is then applied to either the item you’re selling or a hang tag (i personally like branded hang-tags for your store).

some stores write the price directly onto the item or hang-tag – and then if the item is a gift, it’s all about ripping it in half, tearing it off, or attempting to “sharpie” out the price.  it’s much more elegant to remove a sticker and leave your branded hang-tag in tact.

two other reasons this is the way to go:

1.  you can continuously re-use your hang-tags (i used to pin mine at ooma – then when i’d sell an item, i’d remove the tag, remove the sticker and re-use it!).  some stores like to leave the tag on – which is fine – but this is a nice eco-friendly option.

2.  when you use a sticker – you can change the price without putting the item on sale. sometimes – i’m not ready to move an item to a sale rack – but i think the price may be too high.  in this case – i’d simply adjust the price and put it back in the sales floor.  sometimes it’s gratifying to see prices slashed – but sometimes that isn’t the best strategy to move an item.

for sale items – i’d also use tiny color-codes stickers, rather than slashing the price on the tag.  this looked cleaner – and allowed me to easily change my sales strategy when need be.

i was always a fan of Avery stickers on hang-tags which i had professionally printed (i’d gang them up with my business cards – economical too!).

and while we’re on the subject…any ideas for great hang-tags out there?