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Bar Coding The World Away

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-the-mark-of-the-beast dept.

778790 writes "The Bar Code, long used for inventory classification and sometimes feared as a tool of social engineering, has been regulated in the name of globalization, and the globe has defeated the United States. Bar Codes in America will now have more digits, to match the global bar code standard: the European Article Numbering Code."

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  1. Does this mean... by HaloZero · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...that my groceries won't check out properly, for, like, a week, while the software is upgraded to accomodate the new barcodes?

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  2. Metric? by tbaggy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I heard next on the list of things to convert to was metric??