I am a beekeeper, and I primarily sell my honey wholesale to stores. For most of the stores, I deliver cases of honey with no price tags. I let the store deal with that.
I have one store that insists on being a pain. They have over 300 suppliers of local products on consignment, and everything is on a computer inventory system. When I started selling there, I was required to put price tags on with a regular price tag gun, and to also put a 4 digit SKU code on the price tag. The cashier just enters the 4 digit code into the cash register computer – the customer is charged the correct price, and it also adjusts the inventory and sales records.
The store has a brilliant marketing idea, and they have a great location in a huge shopping center. (50K people a day visit this shopping center.) And they just opened up a 2nd store at another shopping center that just got built. But the store has serious management problems. They have hired too many people because they were friends, instead of hiring workers based upon competency. As a result, the cashiers are incredibly slow. I’ve seen them take 5 minutes to ring out customers when it should have taken less than a minute. (I used to be an assistant manager of a gas station when I was 20, so I know how quickly you can clear a line of customers.)
The owner knows there are problems with checkout times. They have been encouraging vendors to put bar code price tags on items to help speed up checkout times. Starting 1/31/16, the bar codes will now be mandatory.
If they didn’t sell so much honey, I would tell them to go pound sand and not sell honey there anymore. As it is, I made over $600 last month. (Most of the stores I sell to, buy about $300 a month from me.)
My problem is that I am technologically impaired. (I grew up without a tv or telephone.) I still use a flip phone and don’t have a tv. I don’t have an Ipad or laptop – my computer is a desktop, and desktop computers have served me well for 15 years. I have the labels for my honey bottles custom printed. The people at the store tried telling me some gibberish about how to print my own bar code labels, but they might as well have been talking Greek to me.
Does anyone have any experience printing bar code labels? Or is anyone interested in some work printing some bar code labels for me? I need 3 different bar codes for the 3 sizes of honey I sell at that store. (12 oz $7.00, 16 oz $9.00, and 32 oz $16.00.)
I would probably only be buying 1000-2000 labels a year.
I am currently paying around 14 cents a label for glossy, color labels for my honey bottles. I only need a basic black and white bar code label that I can stick on my bottles.
The store that sells my honey calls itself a small business incubator. I considered asking management to ask other vendors if they were interested in printing labels for other vendors (like me) who are technologically impaired, and have absolutely no interest in printing my own labels.
But I thought I would ask you all first, and see if anyone here was interested in some work. I don’t do bitcoin, but I do PayPal or can mail a check.
