I am getting real tired of trying to scan round product containers. Things like the Clorox Disinfectant Wipes, Centrum Vitamins, and Flintstones Vitamins have annoyed me the last few shopping outings. The other day I had a hard time getting Clorox to scan at Wal-Mart until I found a combo pack that has three packaged together and the barcode is on the flat cardboard packaging around the bottom of the containers. Today I was at a pharmacy trying to scan the Clorox and the first bottle I picked up to scan said it was not the right product. This was after a minute of trying to get it to scan. Then I tried another one and gave up on having any success at scanning it.
I have had slightly more luck getting the Centrum vitamins to scan, but I pretty much always get the thing saying it does not recognize it as a Centrum barcode. Sometimes I have seen them as boxes with the bottle inside the box and those barcodes scan easier. As for the Flintstones Vitamins I have trouble finding ones that are not the Gummies. Not only are the gummies only in a round bottle, but the barcodes do not seem to work. The ones in a box are much easier to scan and actually the only type that seems to work for this scan item, but I find them hard to find.
Anyways, bottom line is that I have found the round bottle item scans a nuisance. I think that the scanning technology in the app has trouble with recognizing the barcode because the barcode is curved on the bottle and it is reading them as something they are not. Or the app is totally messed up and does not have all the barcodes for the products, but this does not apply to Clorox because I really have had success on these most every time if I stuck to it. Centrum and Flintstones, though, have to have some barcodes not counting despite it saying any of those products are supposed to work. However, it is still hard to get the ones that do work to scan due to the round bottle.
