Comments on: If something with a barcode is stolen can it be tracked to the store that bought it? http://www.usedbarcodescanner.com/forum/if-something-with-a-barcode-is-stolen-can-it-be-tracked-to-the-store-that-bought-it/ Your guide to cheap barcode scanners Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Atheneum http://www.usedbarcodescanner.com/forum/if-something-with-a-barcode-is-stolen-can-it-be-tracked-to-the-store-that-bought-it/#comment-2902 Atheneum Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:59:40 +0000 http://www.usedbarcodescanner.com/forum/if-something-with-a-barcode-is-stolen-can-it-be-tracked-to-the-store-that-bought-it#comment-2902 No, it cannot. The barcode on a given book is the same no matter where you buy it. Barcodes are specific to a given product but not to the retail outlet in which that product is sold. Take a look at your favorite new release novel and look at it at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million. You will find that it carries the same barcode everywhere. No, it cannot. The barcode on a given book is the same no matter where you buy it. Barcodes are specific to a given product but not to the retail outlet in which that product is sold.

Take a look at your favorite new release novel and look at it at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million. You will find that it carries the same barcode everywhere.

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