Cracking the PLU Code

[Rebbi]

Yahoo had a post today about how to know if an item is discounted at several major retailers.
Here is the link
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/secret-price-codes-of-top-retailers-143704248.html

It's source was the I Would Rather Be Shopping blog and here is a link to the post.
http://www.rather-be-shopping.com/blog/2014/03/05/frugal-hack-20-crack-the-produce-sticker-code/

It was worth a look at the post and the blog itself.

[dovy2]

That info had been on ddf for years already

[username]

On this thread which has even more important information.

http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=37764.msg715014#msg715014

[Rebbi]

Whoops. Sorry. I searched PLU Codes. Didn't even think to do UPC

[SoCal Dude]

I still remember the code I learned 35 years ago we used in retail.  Who remembers the "Black Horse" code? 

[Rebbi]

I learned one in a frum store using the possuk of poseach es yodecha

[srap]

I still remember the code I learned 35 years ago we used in retail.  Who remembers the "Black Horse" code? 

Never heard of it before, but perhaps it is 0123456789 since each of the 10 letters are different.

I learned one in a frum store using the possuk of poseach es yodecha

How does that work?

[Rebbi]

The same idea. They divided the 7 words into ten parts and different letters represented different numbers.

[SoCal Dude]

Never heard of it before, but perhaps it is 0123456789 since each of the 10 letters are different.

How does that work?

You are right!  Black Horse =  0 - 9.

[srap]

The same idea. They divided the 7 words into ten parts and different letters represented different numbers.

Hey==that's cool.   Sixteen of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet are represented in that possuk.  There are 11 pair of two letters and it works out that you can just leave out the word 'chai' when repeating the possuk to yourself and there would be ten nice units of two letters.  I don't know the code (and don't have time now to figure it out, but I do see there is potential here for code in numbers and a different code for Hebrew letters.  Fun.