Methods And Systems For Organizing, Handling, And Installing Shelf Labels, Signs And Strips In A Retail Environment

1 . Display materials for a retail environment, comprising an ordered set of a plurality of individual display materials, wherein each of the individual display materials is releasably adhered to an adjacent individual display material in the ordered set whereby forming a pad, and wherein the ordered set is arranged in a predetermined sequence of installation for each of the individual display materials in the retail environment.

2 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of installation is the walk sequence for the retail environment.

3 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 1 , wherein the ordered set is divided into a plurality of subsets of individual display materials wherein each subset forms a separate pad.

4 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 3 , wherein an identifier for each pad is provided on a top sheet of the respective pad.

5 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 4 , wherein an identifier for a next pad in the sequence of installation is provided on a bottom sheet attached to the bottom of a prior pad.

6 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 5 , wherein a first of the individual display materials includes first product-identifying indicia and first price information, and wherein a second of the individual display materials includes second product-identifying indicia and second price information, the second product-identifying indicia being different from the first product-identifying indicia.

7 . The display materials for a retail environment of claim 1 , wherein a first of the individual display materials includes first product-identifying indicia and first price information, and wherein a second of the individual display materials includes second product-identifying indicia and second price information, the second product-identifying indicia being different from the first product-identifying indicia.

8 . A pad of shelf labels for a retail environment, the pad comprising:

a plurality of sheets, each sheet comprising a single shelf label having a unique combination of product-identifying indicia and price information; and

releasable adhesive adhering each said sheet to an adjacent said sheet in a stacked configuration;

wherein the sheets are ordered in a predetermined sequence of installation in the retail environment.

9 . The pad of claim 8 , further comprising:

a top sheet providing an identifier for the pad; and

a bottom sheet providing an identifier for a next pad in the sequence of installation.

10 . A method of manufacturing display materials for a retail environment, comprising the steps:

accessing a content database containing display information for individual display materials;

accessing a store detail database containing sequence information for the retail environment;

combining the display information with the sequence information to prepare an ordered set of individual display materials;

printing each of the individual display materials; and

applying reusable adhesive to adhere the individual display materials to each other in accordance with the sequence information to form a pad of ordered display materials, the reusable adhesive allowing the individual display materials to be coupled to store shelves after being separated from the pad.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein in the step of applying reusable adhesive, the reusable adhesive is applied to only a portion of each of the individual display materials.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the reusable adhesive is a pressure-sensitive adhesive.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the sequence information corresponds to a walk sequence of the retail environment, and wherein the pad of ordered display materials is stacked in accordance with the walk sequence.

14 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the step of applying reusable adhesive comprises the steps of:

separating the ordered set of individual display materials into a plurality of sets of individual display materials; and

adhering the individual display materials in each of the plurality of sets to form a plurality of pads of ordered display materials.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising the step of adhering a top sheet containing sequence data to a top of each of the plurality of pads.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising the step of adhering a bottom sheet containing sequence data to a bottom of each of the plurality of pads.