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Aldi's Barcode Strategy
Because you couldn’t easily tell if a bag of crisps has already been scanned, or if I bought two.
jessaustin
on June 15, 2016
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That seems to be a limitation of the barcodes themselves. Why don't they have three additional random-ish digits? Then the two-item/double-scan confusion would have a 1/1000 chance.
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Because you would need 4000 instead of 4 printing plates to produce the packaging.
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