Michigan Can Recycling wont read barcode?

Michigan Can Recycling wont read barcode?
I am new to michigan and I’m trying to do the can return thing in the machine. Most of them go through without a problem, but I still have a lot where it’s not reading the barcode (the can is NOT smashed). There is a slim but small chance maybe one or two were not bought in michigan (maybe from traveling and pulling them out of my car). But I have too many that can’t be from out of michigan. Where else can you take them where the bar code doesn’t need to be read?

Best answer:

Tell the store cherk

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4 Comments for Michigan Can Recycling wont read barcode?

  • 1. RDG78  |  September 26th, 2010 at 8:49 am

    In small numbers, any convenience store may take them. Note that they have the right to refuse containers of brands which they don’t sell. As an example, if you try taking Meijer store brand cans to a Kroger store, Kroger won’t take them.

  • 2. Sweet_Di  |  September 26th, 2010 at 8:55 am

    when my cans do that i turn them around and put them in the other way and if it still does that then i get a store clerk.

  • 3. bleacherbrat34  |  September 26th, 2010 at 9:43 am

    make sure that bar code area is clean of any pop spots or dirt.

    also it may depends on the size of can or bottle say you have a 16 oz bottle of coke but the pop return machine is set up for 12 oz or 20 oz , 24 oz sizes.

    try any od local party stores around town many do take them but ask first because many small party stores have $1.00 limits now or stop taking them back all together.

  • 4. bill s  |  September 26th, 2010 at 9:46 am

    the store doesn’t have to take back cans from brands they don’t sell.

    So, if you’re bringing in old Anchor Steam bottles and Kroger doesn’t carry that brand you’re S.O.L.

    Same for a Party or Liquor store. They don’t honor brands they don’t carry.

    Moreover, the reason for this policy is because the stores buy their products from distributors – pop or beer – and when they buy 20 cases of Budweiser, they pay the deposit fee to the distributor. If the store takes back the Anchor Steam and can’t return the empty to the distributor, the store loses. Multiply those dimes by the thousand and the store can lose a ton of silver.

    Not every distributor carries every brand, nor does every distributor visit every store. So if the distributor doesn’t carry Anchor Steam, the store doesn’t carry Anchor Steam … no one is going to give your dime back.

    Solution: take your empties back to the same store you bought them, and keep your stinking Ohio cans in your own car.

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