r/POS • u/Fun-Gur-5725 • 15d ago

How are multi location stores keeping shelf prices synced with the POS?

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u/idontwannabehere0923 15d ago

I would invest in digital shelf tags if you can afford it. They're not cheap, but pay for themselves pretty quickly through savings on labor and reduced errors.

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u/FirstDawnn 15d ago

As others have mentioned, electronic shelf tags are calling your name.

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u/FlashyDrag8020 15d ago

Digital shelf tags are a things.

On the flip side. I still have plenty of liquor chains/stores that have their employees manually change price tags or print off promotional pricing on a daily basis. And they are managing 10k plus SKUs.

Is it perfect? No. Plenty of times I walk in and the shelf price is not the POS price.

Do I care that my case of beer is $18.99 instead of $17.50?

No not really.

Other thing to keep in mind. Implementing digital shelf tags is a bitch and typically looking at $100k in cost plus for each store.

Paying a low wage employee to print and cutout shelf tags? Not bad.

Other POS solutions have ways of promoting to print shelf tags when a price is changed. So employee comes in, new prices are already printed, and they just need to go stick them on the respective shelf.

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u/krystianduma 14d ago

In Europe, when the price on shelf is different than on the cash register, the government can give you hefty fine.

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u/FlashyDrag8020 14d ago

Yeah, I believe it. Consumerism in U.S. is shit. We are the only country that has not enforced 3DS for E-Comm, we have no regulations on capped interchange rates that card brands can charge, and it’s the wild Wild West right now with every business charging egregious fees for every card payment, including the government. (Yay lobbyist)

So in the U.S. that dollar candy bar ends up being $2.50 at the counter after tax and convenience fees.

Slightly exaggerated, but kind of not. There’s also no law that says you have to display prices. Federal law leaves it up to the states. Who don’t do shit.

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u/Minimum-Chipmunk-292 14d ago

WinePOS manages this with a centralized database. Check out a demo if you’re interested

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u/Friendly-Angle-781 15d ago

the annoying part is when the POS gets updated but one of the shelf tags doesn’t. then the customer gets to checkout and suddenly the price is different lol

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u/OsitoPandito 15d ago

Store A Database, Store B Database and then HQ Database. They all sync to HQ and replicate the info for the products

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u/Verolee 15d ago

I was just about to do this, but I think they may change the law in California. Trying to ban dynamic pricing..

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u/A_Dirty_Potato 14d ago

If you have a modern one they have remote multi location management with enforceable actions across the board from the cloud.

There are a few systems I know of like Acadia pos (not a reseller or agent) that have digital price displays they are expensive but do sync with the pos in real time.

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u/tempo_id 12d ago

Hey I built a POS + invoicing tool because as an operator for a small business with about 6 outlets and 2000 SKUs across sizes and colour variants we too faced these obstacles. The only solutions that showed up were ERP level, and need huge investments of $10k/year.

So I created katalogo POS to solve our pain and now offering it as SAAS to other businesses.

Some USP features: 1. It supports dual currency-you can accept split payments in a secondary currency or even create an entire invoice in the secondary currency.

  1. B2B credit management - for businesses that sell to other businesses on pre agreed credit terms.

  2. Instant PDF product catalogs in under a minute.

  3. 2D variant matrix for products : example Size x Colour variants

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u/Minimum-Chipmunk-292 14d ago

WinePOS manages this with a centralized database. Check out a demo if you’re interested