TL;DR Summary:

Hammoq closes the gap from intake to shelf by eliminating hand pricing and tagging lag for second-hand goods.

In retail resale, time is money—and nowhere more so than at the intake desk.

Every time an item is sitting in limbo awaiting a donation or return and a staff member is trying to figure out what to price it, you're not just costing yourself labor—your freezing future dollars.

For multi-store thrift operations, liquidation stores, and buy-sell-trade chains, the intake-to-shelf lag is one of the biggest, low-key cost centers in the operation.

Here's why the lag occurs:

• Employees stopping to glance up prices
• Flexible pricing rules by shift or store
• Tag backlogs from too much intake
• Re-training new staff on price logic
• Hammoq eliminates all of the above.

How It Works: AI-Driven Speed + Accuracy

Hammoq simplifies every stage from intake to sale with your store's previous performance history. The system:

• Leverages image recognition to learn product type, category, brand, size, and condition
• Takes 30, 90, or 365+ days of your store's POS history to determine the optimum price
• Prepares a label instantly with price, properties, and product data
• Places the product on the floor with a label prepared to sell—no delay

Bin to shelf, seconds instead of minutes—and near-zero training required.

Example: An Average Day Without Hammoq

• Let's say your store receives 500 items a day.
• Each ~takes 2 minutes to price and tag by hand
• That's over 16 staff hours—just to ring up one day's worth of inventory
• Pricing will vary depending on the staff member, even on the same item
• Mistagged or underpriced stock gets returned, discounted, or ignored

Now with Hammoq:

• Items are labeled in 15–30 seconds
• Pricing is predictable and data-driven
• Daily output 2x–3x higher

Workers focus on high-value tasks (such as merchandising or sourcing)

✅ Key Takeaways:

• Constrain intake-to-shelf timelines
• Bring inventory to the sales floor hours—or days—earlier.
• Auto-generate prices and labels in seconds
• Let AI handle the research. Your team just scans and moves on.
• Double daily output without additional staff
• Hammoq works like an assistant to each employee, immediately boosting throughput.

The Stealthy Cost of Manual Intake

Manual pricing isn't just slow—it's costly. Here's what it typically leads to:

⏳ Back-of-house bottlenecks

• Lost margin from inconsistent pricing
• Excessive markdowns due to overpricing mistakes

♂️ Burnout from redundant, unscaleable tasks

Training headaches whenever you onboard someone new

And when intake gets slower, inventory velocity stalls. Which translates to:

• Slower cash flow
• More stockpiling in the backroom
• Less new inventory on the floor
• Lost sales opportunities

With Hammoq, you don't just speed up—you regain control of the entire flow.

The Velocity Equation

• Let's say your average item sits in the backroom for 2 days before it reaches the floor.
• You process 500 items/day, so you have 1,000 items waiting at any given time.
• What happens when you shave just 1 day off your intake-to-shelf time?
• At $10 avg. sale price → You release $10,000 in retail-ready inventory per day
• That's $300,000/month in inventory that can sell sooner
• At a 40% margin, that's $120,000 in extra realized profit—just by selling faster

Who It's For

Hammoq is for any resale business handling high-volume used or returned inventory, including:

• Thrift store chains
• Buy-sell-trade operations (like Plato's Closet or Uptown Cheapskate)
• Liquidation centers
• Consignment operations with central intake
• Donation-based nonprofit retail

Pricing hundreds (thousands) of products per week—and scale—Hammoq frees up what holds you back.

What's Next (How To):

Measure your current intake-to-shelf cycle time

Track how long it takes donations, returns, or trades to reach the floor.

Test Hammoq on your next high-volume intake batch

Use AI to tag 200–300 products and time the task.

Compare results after 7 days

Track what inventory sold faster, where prices held, and how much staff saved on processing.

Implement throughout departments or stores

Normalise intake pace and pricing regularity across your places.