What Are These Bar-codes? How Gs1 Saves The World! ... -economy @barackobama

Discussion in Misc & Others started by mythman • Jan 25, 2015.

  1. mythman

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    who thinks that 'higher wages' (rather than 'fairer prices') will save the economy (and we can discuss "what's 'fair'" later). I was reminded of that when I looked at a

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    & wondered 'how "universal" ARE these Universal Product Codes (encoded in squares of bars-&-space on the products so-marked)?'

    Looking

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    , I found

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    ---who monitors the whole '

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    ' (though

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    calls it 'the supply-&-demand chain,' I don't yet know how much attention they pay to 'demand').

    I'm looking into the

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    , which the GS1-community (GS1-C) uses to create industry-standards & -guidelines; but before I get into it, I already know that you can help! In fact, this forum itself may be a (secret) central tool in monitoring GS1-C's fairness!

    Do you have any advice for President Obama?