Tesco is swapping barcodes for QR codes on a range of its own-brand products in a move the supermarket chain is describing as a UK “first”.<\/p>\n
Scanning the QR codes with a smartphone will give shoppers<\/a> access to information about the products, such as nutritional content and traceability. It could also allow access to recipes and competitions.<\/p>\n The new codes will be applied to packaging of the supermarket’s own-label sausages, including Tesco<\/a> Pork Sausages, Tesco Pork Chipolatas and Tesco British Pork Sausage Meat.<\/p>\n Money blog – follow the latest<\/a><\/p>\n The change also applies to Tesco’s British Cumberland Sausages and British Lincolnshire Sausages.<\/p>\n Tesco called it “one of the most revolutionary retailing improvements in decades”, saying it will help to improve stock control and reduce waste.<\/p>\n The update is part of a wider industry transformation by GS1, the global standards body for barcodes, which is aiming for a “comprehensive rollout” of QR codes by 2027.<\/p>\n QR codes will enable shops to identify specific batches in the event of product recalls, instead of products being thrown away unnecessarily.<\/p>\n Retailers will be able to used them to block the sale of certain batches at checkout and contact customers who might have purchased them.<\/p>\n Tesco’s development and change director, Peter Draper, said: “For customers, this is a tiny and almost invisible change at the checkout, but for the retail industry, it’s a significant step forward.<\/p>\n “Over time, this opens up exciting possibilities, such as personalised digital tools to help customers manage the food they buy and reduce waste at home.”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: GS1 UK’s chief executive Anne Godfrey said the move was a “significant step forward for UK retail”.<\/p>\n “It shows how the next generation of barcodes can support a more connected, transparent future,” she said.<\/p>\n “We hope this progress encourages others to follow Tesco’s lead so that consumers and businesses alike can benefit from richer, more trusted product information.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesco is swapping barcodes for QR codes on a range of its own-brand products in a move the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2195,7554,7553,7451,3187,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-15994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-barcodes","10":"tag-british-cumberland-sausages","11":"tag-qr-codes","12":"tag-tesco","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116419815458626468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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