In my spare time, I am trying to help set up a friend’s grocery store with barcode scanning for her checkout. The days of placing price stickers are alive and well in many ethnic grocery stores across America; I am trying to modernize at least one of them. Missing inventory control, reporting on selling frequency of items, or any quick ability to identify costs of more than a thousand items from multiple suppliers, it is now high time to move this little shop into 21st-century gear. I had hoped the product distributors would have the basic barcode product data readily available – wrong. I am entering the data on each and every product manually. The cool thing is I am learning yet ever greater detail regarding the Indian diet, like not eating from bloated leaking packages.
We shop at one of the valley’s Indian grocery stores at least once a week – which is your friend’s store?
Hi Greg: It is Indo Euro Foods on 16th and Bell. Project barcode is slow going unfortunately, but we’ll get there… Hope all is well, Caroline.
It takes a bloated, leaky package to know one!