Think 25 scheme expands?

chickywiggle

what a silly rule!!

I remember working for Woolworths one Christmas - the Harry Potter games had come out for the consoles......... what messsage appears on our screens......... "IS the customer over 3 years old!!!" - Do you get many 3 years old spending money ina shop like that then?????

Mankysteve

It must have been flagged on the system by mistake, coupled with the fact you got the thick operator.

advent1122

ShaneUK wrote: »

Sorry, but I completly disagree!

No matter what a price is, a barcode will be different for ever product. Prices change as well, so if two DVD's shared a price, and then one of them changed, that would cause a problem if both had the same barcode!

Sorry, but I completely disagree with your disagreement.
I used to work in a entertainement store in a past life.
We had a load of DVD's come in which were different titles, but they all had the same barcode - because they were all the same price and were lumped under a discount barcode.
So we had 18, 15 certificate films with the same barcode as PG and u films.
So it does and HAS happened.

DCFC79

Just let it go OP, its not worth it

DCFC79

Mankysteve wrote: »

It must have been flagged on the system by mistake, coupled with the fact you got the thick operator.

the thick operator may have been a new starter or a recent starter so maybe they were playing it safe,

looby75

advent1122 wrote: »

Sorry, but I completely disagree with your disagreement.
I used to work in a entertainement store in a past life.
We had a load of DVD's come in which were different titles, but they all had the same barcode - because they were all the same price and were lumped under a discount barcode.
So we had 18, 15 certificate films with the same barcode as PG and u films.
So it does and HAS happened.

your company must have barcoded them themselves then.

I used to work in Game and we sold loads of DVD's, they ALL had different bar codes. If you think about it they would have to because how other would the title get printed on the reciept...if they all had the same barcode anyone could try to return any old DVD saying it was faulty or what ever.

Then there's the issue of stock control, if all dvd's of the same price had the same barcode how would anyone know what they had left in stock and what needed to be reordered.

Nilrem

advent1122 wrote: »

Sorry, but I completely disagree with your disagreement.
I used to work in a entertainement store in a past life.
We had a load of DVD's come in which were different titles, but they all had the same barcode - because they were all the same price and were lumped under a discount barcode.
So we had 18, 15 certificate films with the same barcode as PG and u films.
So it does and HAS happened.

That sounds very much like a specific clearance offer by a distributor, or a wholesaler who repackaged them, and used their own barcode for them.

The DVD's as they leave the factory will always have separate barcodes, especially if they are from different companies...
The only reason to have the same barcode is if they are all seen as the same item by both the retailer, and wholesaler, or the retailer changes them for their own reason.
Any other condition will result in a massive amount of confusion, can you imagine the likes of Tesco having a single barcode for all their DVD's at a set price? (running out of Harry Potter 3 and ordering ten thousand copies of "a bridge to far" because they had the same price?), not to mention the need to change every barcode on them when they changed the price...

Barcodes should, for that reason be unique to the item/product line, it's the primary reason for them (the fact you can use them to work out the price thanks to the tills being able to look up the barcode against a price list on the computers is a nice bonus, the main/original reason for them is stock keeping/tracking).


Out of my collection of DVD's for example only 2 or 3 have the same barcode, and that is where I've ended up with both a UK and US version and the distributor was the same (the UK arm of the company hadn't got their Barcode licence/company barcode registered so they used the US barcodes for about 3 discs, where the US/UK discs were identical in content, it confused the hell out of me when it happened as I knew it went against the barcode standards).

marleyboy

I have a humongous collection of dvd's and cd's, all various prices yet most costing exactly the same as the other.

Not one of them has had matching barcodes, they are as unique as the serial numbers.

The only feasible way all barcodes are the same is for a store to have a "clearout" sale, and stick their own barcodes over the original. I am not sure if that is allowed or not.

Nilrem

It's allowed Marleyboy, but as I understand it the barcode would have to have the company ID of whoever repackaged them, as that allows the retailer to mark them as a single line, even if the content is different from one to another.

IIRC most of the big retailers have their own barcode ID (the first half of the barcode number) and proceedures to allow them to create their own barcodes for things like own bakery products, but it would also allow them in theory to rebarcode something like DVD's if they just wanted to clear several hundred out of the storeroom at the same price and didn't want to bother with normal stock keeping on them.

But it's not something any retailer would be likely to do with current stock where they have multiple items and may want to re-order a particular one (I've never seen them on DVD's from the likes of Tesco/Morrisons), as it's easier for them to either manually price them (put a blank sticker over the barcode and an old fashioned label on the front), or for the whole item line on the POS to be adjusted (so you don't end up with some copies with the new barcode/price and some without).

juno

Nilrem wrote: »

huh?

Unless the companies have stuck their own barcode labels on the DVD's*,

Which they do.