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Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by Horffupolde on Friday October 13, 2023 @08:44AM (#37869950)
How do you link the same product across competitors if there’s no unifying unique id?
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Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by loa_in_ on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:07AM (#37870157)
I imagine every client includes some metadata with the product information like list of package constituents
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Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by Enginerrrd on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:36AM (#37871099)
I mean the manufacturer SKU is a unique identifying id.
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Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by ric2b on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:39PM (#37875378)
There are also gtins, which are global identifiers.
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