What is the purpose of the individual colors of cardstock?
The colors have greatly sped up the sorting process of unsold items. Rather than staring at the codes, we sort very quickly by color and put all of the white tags into boxes for donation. Looking for D for “donate” or looking for the code is much more time consuming. This frees up volunteers to help make the sale much more organized. Unlike other sales, we dedicate several days to make certain all items are acceptable, organized and optimally displayed. We also double check every rack throughout the sale for gender and size of items to ensure that people find consignors’ things in the right spot and buy them. I don’t know of any other sale that has the volunteer staff to remove unacceptable items (torn, stained, off-season) and to maintain this degree of order. People continue to tell us that our sale is the best due to quality and organization and the colored cardstock plays a huge role in this success!
