@Outlaw Programmer said:
I'm a little confused here. The original problem happened because the UPC column used NUMBERS, but the consultants solution was to change this to NUMBERS (i.e. no change it at all)?
Yeah!!! Totally boneheaded, eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code
I gather the part left out here is that the kid working for $10/hour was going to put together the system in a less boneheaded way.
I'm amazed this chain got consultants that couldn't do the least bit of research on UPC bar codes.