Price Stickers... Stick... Too Much.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 2/12/2015 1:00:00 AM
Doesn't it stink when you're stuck with a price sticker that won't unstick?
I don't know why some companies use price stickers and other labels that refuse to come off. Post-It glue has been around for decades, and there have always been glues that were designed specifically to come off with minimal effort, so why on earth would anyone intentionally put a sticker that's hard to remove on an item that the consumer clearly needs to remove as soon as they get home?
I realize that for some items, the sticker often has a barcode that they don't want to fall off, but there are plenty of adhesives that will stay in place, yet still come off with minimal effort.
I will even acknowledge that in some cases they are worried that a shoplifter might pull off the sticker and swap it with a lower cost item, but there are far easier solutions than putting a frustrating sticker on the item. Besides, you rarely see a high priced item that doesn't come in a box, and they can easily print the barcode right on the box.
For items that don't come in a box (most of which are low cost anyway), they can simply use a perforated label that splits into 4 or more segments, so that as you pull them off, they make it evident that the sticker was moved. This isn't rocket science, those kinds of price stickers have been around for ages.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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