Consumerium talk:Intermediate barcode page

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Revision as of 15:40, 28 August 2004 by 142.177.103.58 (talk) (mostly right, but, if there are more than 2% to 5% exceptions, the barcode combines product and company information)

Let's not mix barcode and channel issues. The retail locations have no barcode, they have a company that owns them and companies they work with and a classification within the chain hierarchy (sometimes) which identifies the service / product range of a particular location and naturally an address. --Juxo 18:35, 28 Aug 2004 (EEST)

If they really are separate, absolutely right. However they are not quite separate: Sometimes big purchasers apply their own barcodes or different packaging has different barcodes. If this is *VERY* uncommon then we can avoid mixing them, as you say. If it is even going on 5% of the time they we have to think of the barcode as the product of channel and product information at once.
This is a question some researcher should be able to resolve.
By the way it is good to get past various power structure issues and get back to real work...
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