The Bar Code Turns 35 Today

upc_barcodeAn his­toric event?  And now 35 years later the bar code is being rein­vented as the Data­Bar, or GS1.  For the bet­ter?  The new Data­Bar stan­dard seems rather half-assed to me.  If we are going to require the entire retail uni­verse to com­ply with a new […]

[Fannie] Look! It’s a new report.

item sales menu2This ones geared more towards the buy­ers (but–if you’re a geek like me–then look­ing at our num­bers can be really fun):

Maybe you’ve already noticed. Per­haps you haven’t. There’s a new report under the reports menu in Fan­nie. It’s called Item Sales, and this one can […]

What an age we live in! Look up products right from your desk.

backend menuCus­tomer ser­vice. It’s what we do!

And thanks to the advances that People’s Co-op has made in the wide world of tech­nol­ogy we now have at our dis­posal sev­eral tools to help us pro­vide bet­ter cus­tomer ser­vice than ever before. Take, for exam­ple, our web-based POS back­end. Your ingenious […]

POS: Sales batching, the hows & whys

backend menuHere’s a handy tuto­r­ial for all of yalls that work with prod­uct in the prod­uct data­base, buy­ers, pro­duce team, i’m talk­ing to you here. Part of our back­end sys­tem allows for the cre­ation of prod­uct batches, essen­tially a group of items, for putting on sale all at once and […]