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7777 on July 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked

Actually he did "crack" it, with the exception of the red number.

Also it wouldn't surprise me at all if it worked. Huge companies make baffling mistakes all the time.

mryan on July 24, 2012 [–]

One example of a baffling mistake from Tesco - "spend £1.17 on bananas, get £1.25 worth of reward points": http://www.independent.co.uk/news/banana-economics-buy-942lb...

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