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, 28 August 2004stickers on fruit - sort of barcodes, sort of not
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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 | 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. --[[User:Juxo|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. | |||
:Also things like fruit and vegetables and bulk items have no packaging but instead they have stickers with numbers that vary per [[channel]] but probably not per location... We need to think about [[stickers on fruit]] very carefully. | |||
: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... | |||