The UPC Barcode is changing.
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Hi, this Is Bill Sikkens host of User
Friendly
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:2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.
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:we're going to be seeing a big change
in the way we shop, and it's not something
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:that you might think for over five decades
when you go to the grocery store
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:or really any store,
there's a barcode on your item
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:and you can either self check it
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:or the checker can take it for you,
but they scan it.
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:Basically, that process is the same.
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:It ends up bringing up what you're buying.
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:Well, that barcode is being retired.
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:Your groceries
are not going to stop scanning.
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:But what's happening
is, is we are changing into a new format.
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:So the UPC barcode was introduced
in the early:
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:it was scanned
was in:
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:And ever since then, that beeping
has just been a part of shopping
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:the 2D barcode,
which is what we think of as the UPC
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:code,
as being retired in favor of a new format
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:that's going to use something
that looks like a QR code.
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:Join us this week on User Friendly 2.0.
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:We deep dive into this and tell us what's
going to be happening when you shop.
