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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner View Post
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?
You would have to have a special system to assign price info on the read side.

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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