Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

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IAN DUNN SENIOR BUSINESS MANAGER WOOLWORTHS LTD AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RETAILERS ASSOCIATION (ANRA) “ From ANRA’s perspective there are established common retailing standards we are keen to see maintained effectively. Retailing is a high-volume, low-margin business where efficient administration is key to the delivery of goods to customers at the best possible prices. Constant vigilance is required to ensure the business flows smoothly, and GS1 Australia provides a consistent operating platform for the industry. Year In Review 26 Customers ultimately benefit from the GS1 base standards which are common to all major retailers and manufacturers. Bar codes, for instance, provide a minimum common standard to which everyone subscribes. Retailers usually also require suppliers’ products to undergo GS1 Australia Bar Code Verification Testing, and may request higher than minimum scanning standards. This is because in the busy atmosphere of the checkout some bar codes can be more difficult to scan than in a static test. For example, Woolworths sells over 8 billion consumer items and dispatches 745 cartons, 9.3 million pallets and 7 million trucks each year. For every 1 per cent non-scan rate at store, Woolworths will have 82 million failures. In theory the impact of this on our customers would be 245,000 hours of delay at checkouts. However, even this calculation does not include items that take two or three attempts before scanning – these items are another major cost to retailers and a source of frustration for the customer who has to wait. For business there is the additional cost of having to remove products once they are in national distribution if they do not scan properly. This can cost tens of thousands of dollars just in administration costs, and risk the future of the product from being out of stock on the shelf for an extended period. It is in everyone’s interest to have products that reach minimum or higher standards and have undergone GS1 Australia Bar Code Verification Testing. ”
SUSAN CHRISTIE CONSUMER “ When you have a small child finding the time to get to the shopping done can be a real challenge. If you have a full shopping trolley and an item doesn’t scan at the checkout, you have to wait while the person on the checkout gets someone else to look up the price or a code and it can be very frustrating. Year In Review 27 It would be great if Australian stores had those trolleys that automatically scan your groceries as you put them in and by the time you get to the checkout all you have to do is pay. ”
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Page 5 and 6: Looking forward to the next decade
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