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We live in the age of Amazon, so you’re probably pretty used to buying things online by this point. However, it’s one thing to impulse-click the ‘Buy’ button on an adorable avocado costume for your Pomeranian. It’s another thing entirely when it’s a $2,500 pallet truck scale for your warehouse.If you’re buying based on price alone—BEWARE! You may be getting exactly what you pay for (and no, that’s not a good thing).As an online scales outlet that’s been around for many years, we’ve helped hundre

If you’ve ever weighed a sample in a lab setting, you know it doesn’t take much to throw off an analytical balance. That’s because, with a readability of 0.1 mg (0.0001 g) or better, something as small as a pesky fly, a rogue draft, or even a stray hair or two can be enough to muddy your readings.That’s why many labs and other settings where analytical balance are used have such strict guidelines in place to remind researchers of the proper precautions to take. If your place of work doesn’t have

Are you one of the millions of fitness-focused Americans with a Fitbit, Apple Watch, or another form of wearable health tracker device?If so, you're probably well aware that your device can almost do it all—track your steps, check your heart rate, and even monitor the quality of your sleep. However, there's one thing that it definitely can't do: weigh your body mass.Sure, you could buy a cheap bathroom scale, but do you really want to manually enter in your weight each time? Of course not! What

One glance through the Scales Plus catalog of NTEP-certified food scales and it's easy to see there are literally hundreds of different options to choose from. From portable food prep scales to large washdown checkweighing scales, we have the perfect product to meet your weighing needs no matter how simple or complex. When it comes to food prep scales, you really can't go wrong with the highly-rated OHAUS Valor 1000. Here are five reasons to choose this popular food scale from one of the most tr

Whether you call them pallet trucks, pallet jacks, or jiggers, these non-motorized forklifts are one of the most useful tools at the disposal of any warehouse or shipping and receiving employee. So it stands to reason that, when combined with another incredibly handy piece of equipment—the industrial scale—the pallet truck can easily become one of the most versatile implements in any storage facility.While they come in plenty of different sizes, brands, and weighing capacities, not all pallet ja