It does not require internet for POS scanning as the information is kept in the URL. However a customer scanning the code could be sent to a webpage with further information about the product.
Never heard of GS1 before, let alone GS1 Sunrise but it's presumably behind an annoying and, one would hope, entirely avoidable frustration in Boots in the UK.
They obviously turned on QR code scanning capability on their tills at some point recently(ish) - I can't recall when but I think it was around a year ago. They turned it on, even though their products use 1D barcodes... And now, whenever a consumer item has a QR code too, the till freaks out when it reads the wrong one! They absolutely could ignore the QR code but their dev managers must care so little that this obvious fix is skipped and their continue to annoy customers needlessly.
> Today’s products, however, require much more information than a traditional barcode can hold.
Today's products require much more information because the devs decided to use XML for their data. It worked fine on their test machines with emulated readers and a QR code can hold 1-2kB of text so what's the problem?
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I hate it.
Today's products require much more information because the devs decided to use XML for their data. It worked fine on their test machines with emulated readers and a QR code can hold 1-2kB of text so what's the problem?