PRICES TO OTHER MILITARY ACTIVITIES
Nonexcess salable stock items of ship's store are sold at cost price to other military activities except as follows:

. Sales to the commanding officer of ship's store stock for recreational purposes must be made at the retail price.
. Sales to ships not operating ship's stores must be made at the retail price when the transferring ship provides a composite recreation fund. What this basically means is the requesting ship shares in the profits of the supporting ship; for example, SSNs supported by an AS.

Authorized cigar messes.
Merchant ships and foreign governments.

MARKDOWNS
A markdown is a reduction of a previously established price. It is used to stimulate sales of slow-moving merchandise or damaged goods. Markdowns are done only on the authority of a Retail Price Change, NAVSUP Form 983, approved by the ship's store officer. When a markdown is necessary, it is best to mark down a substantial amount, rather than a small amount one day and a little more a couple of days later. Make a markdown large enough to stimulate the sale now, rather than have the customers try to wait until you have reached your lowest point of reduction. Initial markdowns of 25 percent or 50 percent are not uncommon in the retail trade and should be taken when necessary to stimulate sale of the item. All markdowns should be prominently displayed so that the customers may notice the sale readily. Standard clothing items are on a NAVSUP Form 983, but Report of Survey, DD Form cedures are covered elsewhere

DISPLAYING PRICES
A ship's store must display not marked down are reduced on a 200. These pro-in this manual. its prices for each article so that customers can see the prices. Some articles do not lend themselves to individual price marking. These include beef pepperoni sticks, belts, books, candy, chewing gum, cigarettes, combs, flint lighters, greeting cards, handker-chiefs, key rings/ chains, magazines, matches, postcards, rating badges, ship photographs, shoelaces, shower shoes, soaps, toothbrush holders, and wick lighters. The selling price for these items should be plainly marked on the bin or shelf holding these items by use of signs or price lists. The ROM system will generate shelf labels that identify the stock number and price. The ROM Terminal User's Guide (TUG) provides instructions on how to produce these labels that can be used for all items in the retail store, but you should make sure all items not mentioned previously are also marked with the price individually. This will help you in selling, merchandising, inventorying, while at the same time prevent price manipulation. A standardized price marker and price tags should be used. Information on these items is available in the Ship's Store Afloat Basic Display and Signing Requirement, NAVRESSO VM SUP. When you receive merchandise into the retail store or snack bar, you will price the merchandise using the retail price list on the Intra-Store Transfer Data, NAVSUP Form 973. When you are using the price marker, attach the price tickets to each item without damaging the product or product container itself. You should also attach tickets uniformly on similar items so they can be easily seen when you are ringing the prices up on the cash register. Never use crayons or grease pencils to mark merchandise because the price can be easily altered. Never re-mark any merchandise unless you have a Retail Price Change, NAVSUP Form 983, approved by the ship's store officer. Always have a price list available in the retail store near the cash register so you can check prices when you are not sure. You should use a copy of the Ship's Store Inventory Count Sheet, NAVSUP Form 238, for this purpose and make changes to this price list as required in ink.

HANDLING CASH FROM SALES
The sales outlet operator is responsible to the ship's store officer for the proper handling of all cash received from sales (fig. 2-4). Since there is a great deal of cash handled during an accounting period, caution should be exercised by all personnel having anything to do with money.