Re:Informative? This? On Slashdot? (Score 1)

Actually, some barcodes do contain the price. EAN has several ranges allocated for this purpose to be used where the the price can vary by item, for example whole chicken. At least one large retailer I know of uses their own barcode system that contains the price, when they want to change the price, they put a new barcode sticker over the old, this works well for them because their business model is slightly off the norm. So whilst in the general case the barcode should not contain the price, under some circumstances it is perfectly reasonable for a retailer to have the price in the barcode.