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Not gonna lie, I’m not convinced we are in the “last days” of the barcode. Large institutions and associated standards change slowly.

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As far as I can tell, the article is two employees of The Atlantic chatting about a topic they have no direct industry experience with but one of them has done some light research on. The only real information in the article is that the GS1, the organization in charge of UPC, has set a 2027 goal for switching over to some type of custom QR code, whose specific functionality either hasn't been fully defined yet or the employees of The Atlantic don't fully understand but have some guesses about.

Yeah the majority of their focus was on the consumer facing side of barcodes and then how QR codes replaced them (they haven't).

I can't see any of the warehouses in the middle of nowhere that I deal with changing their setup to scan everything with "AI" like Amazon is supposedly doing. It's hard enough to get them to use barcodes right now.

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