One or the other store merchandise, we seldom pay attention to the labels. And it is in vain - a knowledgeable person can extract from them useful information. Get at least become familiar bar code ...
And who needs it? ..
Now virtually any product you can see a set of dashes and numbers written underneath - what is commonly called a bar code. In the old Soviet times, the bar code was not in sight. In the period of total goods deficit was slightly, to orient them was not difficult, therefore, a need for additional encoding absent.
With today's abundance to remember all the names are not in a position to either the seller or manufacturer. That replaced the certificate with a long description of the product short and compact barcodes. The seller is now sufficient to carry the product bar code down over the cash register, and you receive all the necessary information. This greatly simplifies and speeds up the process of storing and selling products.
