The White Board

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(above is upc version of 55 and clear)
and speaking of upc symbols...I've come to the conclusion that they are devised to drive all retailers completely, totally and most assuredly NUTS/INSANE/CRAAAAAZY!

You see, upc symbols are supposed to (theoretically) make life easier, more scanable and therefore quicker. NOT. Especially when the folks at kraft or Frito Lays or Nabisco (to name just a few) decide to change the darned things on a fairly regular basis. When those people change the upc symbol on a product, it no longer scans through the registers. So one (usually the manager...me in this case) has to go into the computer, find the old one, modify the entry and enter the new upc. Now the cashier can ring up the product rather than putting it in as an unknown object. When you figure that my store (in this case) has something like maybe 20000 different products and this happens just about every grocery order or delivery, this add up to at least an hour a day changing the durned things. Multiply this times the number of stores in (for example) the US, and the amount of time all those managers must spend changing/updating...this translates to a rediculous amount of wasted time. Sigh. Frick! *_^&%&#%@#%$#^$ IIII II IIII I IIIII IIIIII I I!!!!!!