diff --git a/rattail_corepos/corepos/importing/db/exporters/catapult_inventory.py b/rattail_corepos/corepos/importing/db/exporters/catapult_inventory.py
index ab41358..f7a1fe5 100644
--- a/rattail_corepos/corepos/importing/db/exporters/catapult_inventory.py
+++ b/rattail_corepos/corepos/importing/db/exporters/catapult_inventory.py
@@ -329,15 +329,6 @@ class InventoryItemImporter(FromCore, catapult_importing.model.InventoryItemImpo
                 logger("product %s has %s vendorItems but each is missing (valid) vendor: %s",
                        product.upc, len(product.vendor_items), product)
 
-        scale_item = product.scale_item
-        scale_ingredient_text = None
-        if scale_item:
-            scale_ingredient_text = scale_item.text
-            if "\n" in scale_ingredient_text:
-                log.warning("must remove carriage returns for scale ingredients: %s",
-                            scale_ingredient_text)
-                scale_ingredient_text = scale_ingredient_text.replace("\n", " ")
-
         if vendor_items:
             if len(vendor_items) > 1:
 
@@ -376,6 +367,15 @@ class InventoryItemImporter(FromCore, catapult_importing.model.InventoryItemImpo
                    product.upc, len(memo), memo)
             memo = memo[:254]
 
+        scale_item = product.scale_item
+        scale_ingredient_text = None
+        if scale_item:
+            scale_ingredient_text = scale_item.text
+            if "\n" in scale_ingredient_text:
+                log.warning("must remove carriage returns for scale ingredients: %s",
+                            scale_ingredient_text)
+                scale_ingredient_text = scale_ingredient_text.replace("\n", " ")
+
         return {
             'item_id': item_id,
             'dept_id': department.number,