Great ‘shop assistants, help us crack price tag codes’ hunt

MSE_Jenny · 21 July 2015 at 10:39AM

In preparation for the sales, shop staff often scribble codes on a garment’s tag to secretly indicate it’ll be discounted.

See the Next price tag secrets blog for a previous example. Shop assistants (and shopping nerds), please help us decode what these numbers/letters/dots mean in different stores – we’d love examples.

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Kernow666 · 22 July 2015 at 9:10AM

When i used to work at Matalan we used to mark the back of the tag with a fluorescent pen which made it easier on the night before to reduce the items by 50-75%

Squarehead76 · 2 August 2015 at 8:01PM

When I worked in Dixons, a price ending in .98 meant end of line, about to be discontinued, sometimes discounted. A price ending .97 meant discontinued, and nearly always with a decent discount. I am going back a few years though, might not apply now.