Cost plus 10% food outlet
Well, as everybody knows over the last year or so, we've had so much inflation and so many price changes. We just could not keep up. No matter how good our help was, and we do have two very capable ladies that do our back office and do price changes. Were getting over 2,000 price changes a week. It was taking 50 man hours to get them hung. Now it's a download a file and Three minutes later you've got 2,000 price changes. No more paper, no more plastics that we put them on. They look good. I mean, I would say there's no such t Now we get a price change from a vendor. Let'say it's a beer vendor or Coca-Cola and they have a cross-a-board price change. We can take that price change on an Excel spreadsheet, manipulate it how we want, download it, send it to the tags. We never left our desk. I mean, it's literally that easy where before were having to print all these tags, put them on plastics, find them in the shelf and hang them. Literally we would spend 50 hours a week. Were not doing a good job. Were not getting the job done. Were doing all we could do. We could have the best help in the world, but you could not keep up nor have the integrity that you needed to know that your shelf tag was what it needed to be for me to make the profit I needed. And for the customer at the checkout that they were going to get what that tag said. The digital tags are great. You can actually put some color to them and if it's in the ad, it can look one way. If it's a manager special, it can look another way or if it's just a regular price, it looks So, Our customers don't even realize the difference. We know the difference. My help knows the difference and I thought it was going to be a three week process. We got it done in less than a week. I was amazed that we got it done that quick. Now we did have some very capable people and I was very prepared for it and very stressed out to start it, but stress level left. As soon as the first day was over, I was We're going to knock t RDS was great. They can take the state file from state Tennessee and overlay women, infant c We have a little WIC on the tags so it shows our employees and our customers what WIC items are, helps them shop. We didn't have to do anyt Literally RDS just overlaid that file. VMC, our value merchandisers, we order that separately from our grocery, but we have it mixed in throughout our shelf. So we have VMC on our tags so that the person that orders VMC knows to order that tag when they're placing that order and it stands out in red. It's easy to see. We have one day sales occasionally. About once every couple of months we'll have a one day sale. So on Friday or Saturday, maybe the backdoor girl's not here. She can implement t It doesn't even have to walk on the store. Yes, she does, but it does it without her coming out here. There's definitely a payoff on these. They are a w I t We've got pricing integrity now for customers. We have integrity for me to know that the tag on the shelf has been changed in a timely manner. Before when were spending 50 hours a week and doing price changes, weren't getting done fast enough. As soon as we got the tags finally hung, we had another price change on that item over the last year. Now, it's automatic. It's a three minute a week process. Instead of a 50 hour a week process, we're getting price changes done. I was getting a three page exception report every week. That's gone away. We aren't having the problems that were having. It's incredible. We're excited. Can't wait to see what the future brings for these tags because the opportunities are endless.
