No one is talking about it. It feels like a meteorite is hitting the planet and no one is paying attention.

An unintentionally appropriate metaphor. How many of the ~17 meteorites that hit the planet per day do you pay attention to?

1d bar codes will go extinct, but only after every scanning system at every retailer has changed to recognize 2d bar codes/qr codes. This will likely take decades.

In the meantime, there will be a world where 2d bar codes and 1d bar codes will coexist on packs. With the additional confusion that many packs already have qr codes, either for consumer information or for internal tracking at the plant (batches for quality control), so we will probably have a little zoo of qr codes for a while, until they all finally can be merged.

Sadly food tracking apps still don't read these codes. They are vibe coding new features constantly but not working on adding what is actually important.

Yazio, im talking to you...

Surely the actual data will be stored in the QR code and available offline

I also like the aesthetics of QR codes better than traditional barcodes. They do kind of invoke the look of a Go board partway through a game, which is more visually interesting than the boring straight lines of the traditional barcode.

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Hopefully they can reproduce and ensure the survival of their species.

I have been deep into this space for a fair bit of time now. The real power is in Recalls and Return Fraud. There a ton of other nice things that this will empower of course. AMA - I will do my best to answer.

For some other stuff to read about how they can help have a poke at https://blog.closient.com/

Not advertising - just trying to get the word out on 2D codes and RFID and what they provide consumers.

For those saying "Why not something else?" - it comes down to adoption - QR was just the more popular winner. While the register/till is where most of the scanning is happening the QR is just a normal URL and consumer can scan them.

"In 1992, on a factory floor in a Toyota auto-parts subsidiary in Japan, workers were drowning in barcodes."

(collect underpants)

"And that decision is about to change every single thing you buy."

I think recognizing packaging sounds like an ideal use for AGI. Boil them oceans, not the eggs.

Remember the most important fact about these codes: Nobody cares.

Are there studies on how that might affect logistics?

Reminds me of RFID labels pipe dream.

Barcodes are easy and cheap to read in a way that QR codes aren’t (particularly complex ones)

Any old cheap laser scanner will read a barcode and they can be made at large sizes e.g. how Aldi use them on products in the UK to make self scan faster

QR codes need a camera, their complexity goes up as more data is encoded in them so require better cameras especially is high speed situations

They both have places in the world and will co-exist for years to come