Harper's Cycling & Fitness Shop Treks Through POS, Inventory Tracking, And Automation

Cognitive's AdvantageLX bar code printer boosts efficiency and reduces Point of Sale checkout time

Harper's Cycling & Fitness Shop wanted to expedite inventory reconciliation and decrease the time needed for labeling merchandise.

"Prior to the upgrade, the process of labeling new merchandise was tedious and time-consuming," says Harper. "We used one dot matrix printer for all printing at the shop, so printing labels disrupted all other business printing. We used the printer to create 1" by 1" product labels, which contained the product number, a description, and the retail price. It took some time to gather this information for new products, switch the paper in the printer, add the sheet-fed labels to the printer, line it up, find the appropriate file, type in the label information, print the labels, and then reinsert the regular paper into the printer."

AdvantageLX Selected For Reliability and Durability
The upgrade Harper chose to implement included updates to the Profit Premier software, new hardware (like new PCs), a Cognitive Solutions Blaster AdvantageLX bar code label printer, and two Symbol LS 2208 bar code scanners – one for each POS station in the shop. The Blaster AdvantageLX is a desktop thermal printer that produces 2" wide labels. The bar code scanner has a hands-free stand and can read up to 100 scans per second. The Blaster AdvantageLX was selected due to its reliability, speed, and metal mechanism, as well as Edge Technologies' experience integrating the bar code scanner and printer with the Profit Premier software.