If they ever change the barcode he’s fucked.
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Then he simply says that this is a statement about the commercialization of our society. To be honest, that would be a better explanation than "It's an Oreo's barcode".
*Oreo’s Double Stuf
It looks like a UPC barcode. So he should be able to scan it at any store that sells Oreos. With no worry about it changing.
At least in North America. I'm not sure if UPC codes are valid elsewhere.
I think they work anywhere in the Universe.
I don't think Andromeda has UPC yet.
The literal definition of self checkout.
I remember reading on Reddit, that in some salon the hated the barcode on the neck tattoo. So they had a cut out barcode from a box of tampons, and whenever somebody asked for that tattoo, that's what they did.
Oh god, that's just hilarious
Intentionally making self-checkouts even more difficult and awkward...
Conveniently allow me to steal by pretending to scan a $500 TV when I actually scan my wrist to get charged for one of those $0.50 mini pies. 😈
This was my immediate thought too but now they have weighted checkout counters and cameras checking items, but it definitely would have been great in the early days when I used to scan everything up as unwashed potatos
Weakest link is still the min wage employee who still probably really doesn't care.
Here the checkout locks down and keeps repeating "unexpected item in the bagging area" and needs an employee to come and check and swipe their card to unlock. I assume the camera system works the same if the colour, shape or size of an item doesn't match
Some of the ones here do the scale thing but I didn't think any use a camera like that. Walmart has a camera on your face but no scale.
Yeah, and is it supposed to be functional? How would it even work?
We may be putting more thought into it than the dude who decided to tattoo a random junk food barcode on himself though.
They just read the dark lines for a few bits of data (it's literally just a number). If you're pale enough and the tat done well enough, it should work, assuming the UPC is in the system for the POS scanning it.
555 95472, or 5 for short, was boy close in age to Charlie Brown. 5 had brown spiky hair, and he wore an orange shirt with the number 5 on it. 5 also played for Charlie Brown's baseball team. 5 was given a numerical name by his father, who was upset over the preponderance of numbers in people's lives; when questioned, 5 clarified that this was not his father's way of protesting, it was his way of "giving in." 5's family are named 1 (father), 2 (mother), 3 & 4 (twin sisters). and 6 (sister). His last name, 95472 (the accent is on the 4), was taken from the family's ZIP code; it is also the zip code for Sebastopol, California, where Schulz lived at the time.
From Wikipedia.
And now an Oreos advertisement, it never stops huh
I'm pretty sure this isn't an advertisement. What makes you think it is?
I genuinely thought they were joking with these comments, but I think they're serious. They thought I was working for mcdonald's the other day. Lol
I don't even know how that would work. I just like sharing memes.
Maybe they're just pulling a long con on you
Don't you know memes are window to your soul, and posting one means you 1000% support it???
/s
Lol, omg
Edit: wait, I just saw your comments from last time. You're serious?
This post makes you want to buy Oreos? Weird.
Edit: I'm having a fun time imagining a brand manager at Mondelez looking at this pitch:
"So it's a consumer that has a tattoo of the barcode and is scanning it? At like a Ralphs? Oh, no, a Home Depot? Ok great. And we can clearly see that it's the brand with like a nice image of the product? No - it's grainy and text only and can barely be read? Perfect - green light. Great work guys. Let the creative agency know to keep more of this coming. Also, let's have the media agency seed this into some insignificant social media networks that almost no one is on. I can't wait to see the sales lift this is going to bring. I can smell a promotion."
"Also, can you make like 700-800 totally unrelated posts and spend a ton of time fawning over star trek first? THEN, when they're least expecting it, we hit em with this masterpiece."
Tbh after reading I remembered I had some Oreos in my kitchen
Well they are delicious and a healthy part of a complete breakfast. You should buy more today...
Although I just ate some and they expired in 2021... oops
Oreo! I couldn’t read the screen.
Double stuff