A GUIDE TO KNOW EVERYTHING YOU NEED ABOUT RETAIL SCALES

For those who need to choose a scale for their retail business or for those who work daily with weighing equipment, Balanças Marques has prepared a guide that sums up all you need to know about the subject. 

It’s time to choose a new scale for your business and you’re lost among so many options? 

You work every day with commercial scales, but feel that you need to know more about this kind of equipment? 

Balanças Marques gives you a hand. Our team of weighing specialists has prepared a guide for you to find out, step by step, all you need to know about retail scales. 

Read it and follow each stage to make more conscious decisions in the moment to choose your scale and to use it on your retail business:

1. Essential concepts about weigh and scales
First of all, to know how to work with a scale better, you need to have some general notions about weighing. Because the process is way more complex than it looks.
When using a scale on your retail business, you’ve probably never thought about all the external factors that come into play when weighing. Equipped with load cells sensitive to any change, the weighing instruments are influenced by variables as the gravity, vibrations and even the temperature and humidity.  
And, despite apparently being very similar, scales have different functionalities and characteristics. For this reason, when it’s time to choose or to use your commercial scale there’s some concepts related with weighing that you should recall, as the range/capacity and division. 

2. Types of commercial scales
For each type of retail business, there’s always a type of scale. But, among so many options available in the market, it’s not always easy to choose the one. 
In order to elect the appropriate commercial scale for you, start by exploring the several alternatives and notice the differences between, for example, the checkout scales and the scales with a billing system, the suspension scales and scales in other formats, etc.…
And remember that are several steps that you should follow in your decision-making process, giving a special attention to those that are the characteristics of each scale model and the needs of your own business. 

3. Use and maintenance of retail scales
Right after choosing the ideal commercial scale for your business, there are several precautions that you should have to keep the good work. 
On the day-to-day in retail, the equipment is subject to constant use and it’s natural that may suffer some wear. But simple measures such as installing them on the right location and do regular cleanings with non-abrasive products can contribute to extend the useful life of your scales. 
Besides that, in the legislation, they are considered “non automatic weighing instruments”, used to “determined the mass in commercial transactions”. Which means that the scales of your business are framed on a European Union Directive that requires, among other procedures, a mandatory periodic verification – which cannot be forgotten. 

Now that you’ve take a look of our guide about retail scales and know everything you need to know about the theme, you’re ready to get to work – either when choosing your new equipment or in your daily use. 

Explore the Balanças Marques website to find out the ideal commercial scale for you and contact us for any clarification about weighing and our products.