I still remember the code for Braeburn Apples, over 25 years after I worked in a supermarket.
For some reason, their code of 6969 sticks in my mind.
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Worked in a stationers over 20 years ago, still remember the barcode for this one pencil eraser we sold all the time that would never scan - 4007817526040.
... Still can't remember a single damn birthday or important appointment. Why, brain, why?
Add the word eraser and a symbol youve got an uncrackable password youll never forget
Touché - except now all 500 of us on Lemmy know what to append to our rainbow tables...
I still remember my ICQ user ID 208646779 even though I haven't logged in for 20 years.
I still remember my Windows 95 license key.
51501242
But I can't remember if my niece's birthday is next month or the month after... And I've been to her birthday every year...
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The only one I remember is 4011.
That shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s
Totally!!!
I'm staring at an organic banana and it's 94011 so it does seem to follow the +9 for organic shit pattern
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I only worked at a grocery once as a summer job, but holy crap I sold a ton of 4011s. Nearly every customer bought them, or at least anyone who wanted to live. Basically the exceptions were the old women who instead bought cartons of Pall-Mall cigarettes.
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Worked in retail many moons ago. Back when organic was just becoming a thing. I can tell you one thing.: A lot of people were getting a deal on organic food -because cashiers would just key in the code for non-organic. The lines were too long, and you look foolish looking things up in the "book" haha.
Isn't it usually just the same code with a "9" concatenated at the start? I.e. tomatoes are #4664, organic tomatoes are #94664.
Sure, but still you need to look at the sticker to know if it's organic or not
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I still do this if I have to go through self checkout. Look man, I don't work at a grocery store. If they force me to do two completely separate jobs (cashier and bagger), and still raise my food prices, I'm going to give myself some employee discounts.
That's stealing, says the person who also does this. Also I have some saffron I nicked from Wally world too if you want to try it with our ill gotten gains.
Organic is the same code with a 9 in front.
last time I didn't use self checkout, the cashier keyed in all my stuff as organic when it wasn't :(
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0118999881999119725 ... 3
That's the code for the Tnetennba.
Well sir, as a former one of these, I can say with confidence, the code provided is not a valid PLU.
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Spike-y Pear? I have no code for spike-y pear. Halp. 🍐
Are the codes all unified across stores and POS systems? Is it an extension of the UPC? I assumed the code was like a part number from that store chain's inventory.
There are standard sets of PLUs, yes. Not every store uses them, but you'll definitely find them at most large chains.
They are called PLU numbers and I'm assuming they're regulated because bananas are the same code everywhere I've been, as with grapes. Maybe certain produce between regions or chains is different but I think most are similar.
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Oh look at the rich guy buying exotic fruit
I've had cashiers not recognize jackfruit, plantains, ginger root, star fruit, pomegranates, and dragonfruit. All of which grow in South/central America and are regularly shipped to the US just like bananas.
Plantains and casava (or yuca if you're Puerto Rican) can even grow locally here in Texas, so idk what the deal is.
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And then there's the poor kid who started counting how many habaneros I had in the bag when they're sold by weight. I let him finish, and he rang up like $60 for 8 habaneros.
How much could one habanero weigh, Michael? One pound?
When I worked retail, the problem wasn't "knowing the code" for the fruit. We could look that part up. But in order to look up the code, you had to know what the fruit was called, if it didn't have a sticker or label. That was the hard part -- at least until the equipment was modernized and also included pictures.
Most of the time, if you didn't know what the thing was, you could just ask the customer "What is this?" and then look it up from there.
However, a surprisingly frequent problem was that the customer wouldn't actually know what the thing was or what it was called. They were buying it just to try it, no idea what it tastes like, how to use it, what it costs, or what it's called.
It takes a special kind of adult to see something that they don't know what it is but then to also decide "I'd like to eat that." But then again maybe it's because of this type of person that our ancestors figured out that pineapples are delicious but hemlock is deadly.
If it's in the fruit aisle and I don't know what it is, I'm absolutely buying it. Trying new things is great.
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Ok that got a giggle out of me.
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