OK tonight i had a flashback when i worked in the grocery industry , well it actually didn't occur to me till i got home. Here it goes.. 

So i thought i would pick up a few things at the market this evening due to it being slow today at work. Picked up a few items and when i came across a food i had never seen before .Thought why not give it a try... Had never seen this product before and in the late nineties, early 2000's i used to process data for a gourmet grocery store. You have probably seen my post's on twitter regarding my super techie computer skills. not that i have a big ego , but believe me i can get around a database ( i have to watch myself i get cocky occasionally and sometimes i offend corporations). It's not really my intent on twitter i just express my thought's as they happen , kind of like spur of the moment post's. The corporation may look at it as i am bashing their business . However that is usually not my intention.. not to be spiteful with them.However i have a inquisitive nature  and my computer skills get out of hand, i will admit. Have a addiction to the net like most of us.Try to refrain sometimes and if it is to spiteful or it offends sometimes . Will give my post a second thought and take it down (delete my tweet) so to speak. Anyway back to the Grocery story . 

          When i went to pay for my item the cashier had trouble, only with the item i had never tried or seen in a store before ( it was like a pastry dessert  w/ blueberries) Come to find out it was European. *..Bingo ...* the ever important UPC has a meaning... and European foods have one extra digit than  domestic products.. this is why the cashier did not have a price from the scanner.. someone who put the code in messed up or  not messed  up : just put it in the database the wrong way.Confusing to a American data processor ( like i used to be).  It is a new store, to the south bay of Los Angeles just opened a few weeks ago.. These kind of things will happen till the store get's on track .It's the same when a new restaurant or any small business first open's up ... My philosophy is to stay away for a few months till they work out the kinks... however i had been to this grocery store last week, and i liked the ambiance and the way the store was set up.. even drove a bit out of my way. ( i mean there was a Ralph's closer). However thought i would give the new guy in town a run for my money.( Ralph's, probably has a down payment for a small house in the mid-west from me, for the $ i have spent with them over the years). So no hard feeling's mr. Ralph's grocery(there's a example of me playing w/ corporate America , just my nature :) .. anyway that's my blog, about the ever and so important Universal Product Code   :)      signed X Data base price integrity

 for Bristol farms in So.Cal :) over and out - Kevin B.