I still remember the code for Braeburn Apples, over 25 years after I worked in a supermarket.
For some reason, their code of 6969 sticks in my mind.
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That’s more like “TerribleTerrible”
Is your brain broken?
So how did you like them apples?
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Product code checks out!
Nice.
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…
The only one I remember is 4011.
That shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s
I’m staring at an organic banana and it’s 94011 so it does seem to follow the +9 for organic shit pattern
Is it organic because it has more carbonic acid?
I never got how you guys could remember all that shit.
You just punch them in so often.
Totally!!!
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.
94011 is better.
Nah you get the 94011 but you use the 4011 code at self checkout.
Weird… Prime rib, avocados and maple syrup are also 4011 at self checkout.
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They were suggesting stealing by inaccurately ringing up stuff as bananas.
Which by the way, there’s probably cheaper PLUs to use for that
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Do you have to figure out how much everything weighs in bananas?
Gives new meaning to “banana for scale”
They usually have devices to calculate that for you.
I bet those scrubs don’t even measure the radiation level to check against the amount of claimed banana mass.
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.
Sure, but still you need to look at the sticker to know if it’s organic or not
Are those tomatoes made from metal? Or sand? If you can chew it then it’s organic. Technucally if it has carbon-based compounds.
Fun fact: acetone is organic too. And you don’t want to drink it. Seriously, don’t do it.
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.
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Nice and you still have 8 lives left
Organic is the same code with a 9 in front.
last time I didn’t use self checkout, the cashier keyed in all my stuff as organic when it wasn’t :(
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.
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
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.
Wait why were you being downvoted
I threw him an upvote for jackfruit, but I suspect the downvotes are because “serious reply to an obvious joke”
Spike-y Pear? I have no code for spike-y pear. Halp. 🍐
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.
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.
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 bananas are 4011
Vanilla beans are 4908
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