An inexpensive and disposable locking strip for use in temporarily retaining hanger clips (and the garments or other articles they support) in place on a rack as that rack is moved about during shipment and in preparation for commercial display of the goods. The strip is sufficiently flexible and deformable so that it may be urged laterally beneath the hooks of a plurality of hangers suspended in parallel relation from the horizontal rod of a display rack. Unhooking of the hangers, either accidentally or intentionally, is thereby restrained until such time as the strip is longitudinally extracted.