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Terms of Service Goto: Homepage - General     Duplicate UPCs?? Posted by mmitchell on 12/31/2002 at 20:25 PST in General Last Reader Comment on 01/01/2003 at 14:40 PST Scanned in the UPC from a bottle of Ch. Garraud 2000 (Lalande de Pomerol), and discovered the code had already been applied to a different wine (a Barolo). Could an importer have been reusing codes? Error in the database this was imported from? Any other explanation? Any protocol you've got for handling this? ( 1 Reader Comments 1 New Comment )     dole 01/01/2003 at 14:40 PST [Reply] In short, yes. UPC codes can be resued and often are. Usually its the same wine, but a differnt vintage. Liquor stores can assign their own UPC codes for wines that don't already have there own. (Very few imported wines have UPCs on them from the winery.) So from year to year the same store can reuse the UPC for other merchandice. Frustrating I know. UPCs are far from perfect. Bryn We would really like to hear what you have to say You are currently logged on as a Guest User. In order for you to make comments on harvey you need to have your own account. Please Signup for an Account now. Terms of Service Goto: Homepage - General

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