Thanks Aaron Hats & Pete. Good info.

Pete, most of the items now have a printed barcode. Is there an easy way to tell if it's UPC or 3 of 9? It's okay if we don't capture each and every one of the doo-dads and gizmos, but I do care about high margin items, popular items, fad items, and the rate of movement of certain items. Walking around looking at blank hangers is error prone, time consuming, and it's hard to reliably tell that we've FINALLY sold out of that turkey item and can re-claim the display space and not re-order.

The reason for using Access is to produce summary reports, print order forms, etc. For now, anyway, Quicken kind of features aren't what I'm after.