{"id":2325,"date":"2012-02-19T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2013-09-05T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:31:32","slug":"leading-digits-upc-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/leading-digits-upc-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Digits &#8211; UPC-A Barcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first digit of a UPC-A Barcode is number system character. The following table shows you what different number system characters mean<\/p>\n<p>0: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standard UPC number<br \/> 1: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reserved<br \/> 2: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Random weight items (fruits, meat, vegetables, etc.<br \/> 3: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pharmaceuticals<br \/> 4: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In store marketing for retailers (a store can set up unique barcodes for themselves, but no\u00a0other store will be able to read them)<br \/> 5: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coupons<br \/> 6, 7,8 \u00a0 Standard UPC number<br \/> 9: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The first digit of a UPC-A Barcode is number system character. The following table shows you what different number system characters mean 0: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standard UPC number 1: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reserved 2: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Random weight items <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/leading-digits-upc-a\/\" title=\"Leading Digits &#8211; UPC-A Barcodes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,71,9],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationwidebarcode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}