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: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. | :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... | :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. | :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... | :By the way it is good to get past various [[power structure]] issues and get back to real work... | ||