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.
It probably wouldn't work if you did. The last time I looked at ICQ I believe that there was a situation where they either chose to, or were forced to, essentially purge all the dormant/old ICQ accounts.
I don't have all the details, but once I saw that, I just noped out. I can't get back in and look at all my old, now permanently offline contacts? No thanks. I was here for the nostalgia, and I can't even get that.
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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...
The only one I remember is 4011.
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.
Jet fuet doesn't melt steel beams! Oh wait I might misremember that one.
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.
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.
last time I didn't use self checkout, the cashier keyed in all my stuff as organic when it wasn't :(
Organic is the same code with a 9 in front.
As expensive as organic food is, I'm sure that they already factor incorrect item entry into the cost of organic produce items.
The only inorganic compounds in food I can imagine are salts. It is beyond me how they not understand that almost everything everyone eats is organic.
I get what you're going for, but not everything is literal. People refer to their computers as "rigs" even though they can't drill for oil.
When people use the word "organic" for food, they're specifically referring to particular certifications, like the National Organic Program in the USA, and foods that are "organically farmed". I agree that the naming isn't ideal, but the word "organic" is very commonly used for this, and therefore it's a legitimate definition of "organic". That's just how language works :)
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I understood that reference.
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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.
But is it two put together
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.
Yeah I think the PLU codes (like 4011 for banana) are the same practically everywhere. The codes used in Australia are the same as those used in the USA
Most use the PLU system. There's a handful of (imo stupid) smaller stores that have their own system/ codes, but then it doesn't even match the sticker on the fruit/ vegetable. For the most part, it's universal.
Most produce you find at larger grocery stores, have stickers applied before they arrive to the store. Nobody there gets paid enough to care if the apples all have their stickers (or bananas, or pears, or - insert food item here)... So many are fairly standardized.
I'm not sure where in the production and distribution chain that the stickers end up on the produce, but it's before the stores.
I worked produce department for a few years when I was a teenager, and we got shipments from our own internal distribution, and the manager would suppliment anything they couldn't provide with a smaller, more local distributor. AFAIK the local guy had more reliable stock, but cost more (not enough to create a loss, as far as I was aware - but enough to reduce profit margins); so the thinking was: get it cheap from distribution, if they can't or won't, then fill in whatever is lacking with this other guy. It was almost always the same stuff regardless (in the same boxes, from the same growers, etc) and everything from both sources always had the exact same labels/stickers/codes on them. The workers only needed to get it from the truck to the shelf for the most part. The only produce we touched any more than that, was the stuff that went on the wet display; mostly lettuce, celery and such.
I've worked at several stores and I've noted the few codes that I actually know are consistent among different local stores.
IMO, it might change from country to country or something, but largely, the numbers are the same.
Spike-y Pear? I have no code for spike-y pear. Halp. 🍐
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.
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.
Yeah, me too mostly. New fruit / veggie that I don't know what it is or tastes like? Just my style.
But, I'm also going to read the sign(s) so that I know what it's called and how much it costs. I don't need to get up to the checkout to find out that the "warty pink golf ball sized fruit thingy" is going to cost me $22. And I definitely want to know how to tell if it's ripe or whether it needs to be cooked first and not eaten raw.
Ok that got a giggle out of me.
Limes are 4048 and half a lime will clean the heck out of a garbage disposal
And smell amazing doing it!
and bananas are 4011
Vanilla beans are 4908
One time my grocery store had Lions Mane mushrooms. The cashier didn't know what the code was so rang them up as white button mushrooms.
That was pretty sweet.
