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UPC Codes
They amaze me.
How do they not get duplicated - they are so prevalent, and yet they never seem to repeat. Is there a master clearing house somewhere? Are you allotted certain ranges? How do they prevent duplicates?
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Yep, you lease/buy certain ranges from an overall list.
Some people then sub-lease or loan their numbers and keep track of them themselves. I think our range at work is about 100, so we just have a small db table we have kicking around to pick the next in line not reuse them.
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a manufacturer requests a certain UPC code range. then that manufacturer is responsible for tagging their items with UPC
1st digit is case container size indicator digits 2-7 are the mfgr code. (1 mfgr can have multiple sets of these) digits 8-13 is product code digit 14 is checksum 6 digits for mfgr's mean there can be just under a million unique manufacturers 6 digits per mfgr for 1mil products/mfgr code. 1 trillion total combinations |
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What happens if you "steal" a code. Let's say that you sell widgets and you take a code from a gegaw that will never be sold in your industry?
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Its been a long time since I had to get a UPC code, but I recall it wasn't expensive. |
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iirc I paid ~$700 for a hundred. ...plus a small annual fee.
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IOW, you would have your own internal codes that happen to look just like GS1's system. ...but that won't work if you are reselling to a distributor or point of sale. (they like having one standard) FWIW, I expect that computer vision will soon displace bar codes. That is, bar codes are just a crude way for the machine to recognize the product. ...the machines are getting smarter. 
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