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Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005
D_Fresh writes "The same thing that's happening to phone numbers is also happening in retail. The NYT (blahfreeregnotreallyblah) has a story about longer bar codes which will be required for U.S. retailers by 2005. Apparently they're running out of 12-digit codes and need to add a digit, but the code rework for this is non-trivial. Some shortsighted chains *cough*Kmart*cough* may be caught with their pants down in late 2004, since some scanners will simply crash if they scan a 13-digit code they can't handle. Enjoy your :CueCats while they last..."
Twelve digits ought to be enough for everyone...
I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check. -M.C. Escher (1898-1972)
...AOL had not insisted on a new barcode for every update of their free CDROM we'd have plenty of numbers left...
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