Yes and No
Yes if the store have entered the code into its computer.
However, You can not get the price just from the code itself.
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A UPC barcode identifies an item by a series of black lines with numbers underneath. It allows for data on such items to be stored such as what the item is as well as price.
The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.
bar code, Universal Product Code (code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser; printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information)
A student Bernie overheard a conversation and told his teacher Woodland about it and he experimented and he invented the bar code using morse code.
Most bar code scanners will give you the price of an item , but if you are shopping and find one that does not , the price will come up at the checkout when you plug the scanner in .
The bar code reader is used to read printed bar codes. It allows an attached computer to identify a product or item on which a bar code it printed and, most importantly, price that item to automate and speed checkout in a store or market.
Everything the store sells - is stored on a computer - along with the price. The bar-code on the item is unique - in that (for example) all identically-sized tins of carrots from the same supplier have the same bar-code. When the tin is scanned, the computer interprets the bar-code and adds the item to your bill. It also prints the item price.
A bar code is used to identify a product or item. That's all. Other information associated with that bar code is held on the computer server that is linked to the bar code scanner. That other information could include what the item is, its price, brand, size/weight, and many other particulars. The scanner is able to identify the item, and once the bar code has been used for that, the computer server does the rest.
The bar codes are programmed into the cash registers to easily price an item. All bar codes are different, and have a unique code to determine which product it is!
Bar codes have a meaning because the meaning of a bar code is assigned to that bar code. A bar code identifies an item, and product information regarding that item is held in a data base.
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because each store may have a different price for the item. If you were to store the price on the barcode you would then have to go to every item when a price change occured and update the barcode. To just associate a price with a barcode in a computer is a much more efficient practice.
bar code, Universal Product Code (code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser; printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information)
A UPC barcode identifies an item by a series of black lines with numbers underneath. It allows for data on such items to be stored such as what the item is as well as price.
The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.
Bar codes identify the item and the price. They are used by a computer to provide the price and for inventory purposes.