Patent ID: 8762212

Claim:
A system for creating strips for display shelves of a business establishment, the system comprising: a database comprising planogram information for an area of a business establishment, wherein the database includes spacemap data for a product display area of the business establishment; a database for storing strip templates; a computer programmed to create and/or edit strip files for strips to be printed based on a strip template and one or more of the planogram information and/or the spacemap data, the computer programmed to enable specification of a strip template and one or more products to be included on the strip, the strip template having an elastic property that enables the computer to generate variable length labels for the one or more products to be included on the strip, wherein the computer is programmed to adjust the dimensions of the variable length labels such that the objects to be included on the labels are automatically scaled depending on the dimension of the variable length labels; and a printer for printing one or more strips based on the strip files, wherein individual ones of the strips are constructed and arranged to be a predetermined length that is coextensive with a horizontal dimension of an area of space allocated on a display shelf for arranging one or more products corresponding to the strip thereon, and wherein a strip includes space indicators being printed on the strip that indicate a beginning or end of a product space allocated on the display shelf for arranging one or more products.