Re-code.com contained a database of bar codes with instructions on how to print them on stickers. It suggested visitors "chose their own prices" by, for instance, sticking a bar code for generic cereal on a name-brand box in the store.
The Web site's creators called it a work of satire intended to create a discussion on how prices are set by corporations. It went online March 20.
A letter from Wal-Mart's lawyers to one of the companies involved in hosting the site said re-code.com encouraged a modern version of the old scam of taking price tags from a cheap items and putting them on more expensive ones.
Heck half of the time it doesn't matter as the bar codes either can't be read when scanned or if they are on sale they are not put into the computer so when they are scanned that the sale price is given etc etc etc.
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