r/funny • u/Bartokomous19 • 2d ago

Costco Pumpkin Code

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u/Ftb2278 2d ago

It's an older code, sir, but it checks out

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u/Mdad1988 2d ago

Niiiice

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u/woops_wrong_thread 2d ago

N1111c3

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u/Mdad1988 2d ago

I’m the noice! guy…

I don’t wanna hear no more noice! From you!

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u/zahren 2d ago

N01C3!

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 2d ago

It's the code to the lactation room at my work

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u/RandoAtReddit 2d ago

And the lactation pods at the Indianapolis Zoo: 8008

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u/Ftb2278 2d ago

That's wild business 

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u/Bartokomous19 2d ago

At Costco buying a pumpkin today. It didn’t have a barcode, so they had to walkie the number - the guy on the other end knew it by heart - “80085”

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u/Tricky_Spirit 2d ago edited 2d ago

There's a couple of produce codes that anyone who works produce in any grocery store know by heart, one is 80085 being pumpkins, and another is 4011 being bananas. One because it's funny, another because bananas are the #1 seller in produce.

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u/EpicRedhead13 2d ago

I know 4011 by heart and I’ve never worked in a grocery store. But my dad did once upon a time.

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u/dare2smile 2d ago

I also know 4011 by heart but it’s because everyone mentions it can’t time grocery codes come up lol

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u/PePs004 2d ago

4012 is naval oranges. 4048 is limes, 4068, green onions, 58007 Indian eggplant, 4959 is mango, 4050 canteloupe, 4032 watermelon, 3142 for mini watermelon (might be wrong on that one, always missed it first try)

Working produce forces them into your brain

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u/vulvasoutforharambe 2d ago

I know 4011 by heart because it was my home address and I also worked at a grocery store.

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u/Whiskey_Bear 2d ago

Me too. My son won't stop singing the song...

Chicken, 4011..

Chicken, 4011....

Chicken, 4011, 4011, 4011.....

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u/BudwinTheCat 2d ago

Damn you.

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u/Iolair18 2d ago

That 5 digit is Costco specific.

PLUs are 4 digits that start with either a 4 or 3, with a possible 9 prefix for organic. 4011 bananas, 4062 cucumbers, 94131 organic Fuji apples. My goto quick-check to see if a scale had fully loaded a PLU file correctly was 3440 Pomegranate, mainly because I knew it was near the end of the database file my company used, where they went 94xxx, 04xxx, 93xxx, and lastly 03xxx for whatever reason.

The pumpkins I remember from way back are the 2 decorative: 4734 mini pumpkins, 4735 large pumpkins for like carving. Sweet/baking pumpkins started with a 3. 3134? something near there.

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u/Tricky_Spirit 2d ago

Oh man, I think you're right on the pumpkins. I may have just remembered it from there and just deleted the other number. Also the 9 prepending organics, I thought it was 8 but I'm running off of poor memory from ~2017 and didn't get much organic sales since I worked graveyard shift.

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u/TheAserghui 2d ago

Yeah, I got excited enough to research PLU codes. Hoping it was true...

Pumpkin  

  • Decorative / Painted (3131)  
  • Jumbo (3130)  
  • Mini (4734), white (3133)  
  • Ornamental (3135)  
  • Pie Pumpkin (3134)  
  • Regular (4735)  
  • White (3132)

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u/Subject_Translator_7 2d ago

I got excited enough to research PLU codes.

You're a hero honestly.

You also might be welcome in some of my home subreddits like /r/autism <3

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u/TheAserghui 2d ago

Ah haha, it was less of a tism and more of a hopeful inner-adolescent

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u/j_gumby 2d ago

This guy groceries!

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u/Alternative_Ebb9564 2d ago

Yup those are the plu's for pumpkins I remember

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u/Sammichface 2d ago

Yeah, I work in a different chain grocery store and our pumpkins are not titties. Now I'm sad.

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u/Mekito_Fox 2d ago

It took your comment for me to get the joke 😅

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u/SeattleGeek 2d ago

I learned bananas by heart doing self scan. Haha.

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u/Ok_Mention_9865 2d ago

Its been 17 years since i worked in a grocery store and I still remember 5577 is pork chops. I used to be able to list half the department but thats the only one I can still remember.

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u/johnrobertjimmyjohn 2d ago

Man, I only cashiered for like 3 months, but I used to know multiple apples and tomatoes, lemons, limes, pears, peppers all by heart. Though it was best to check to apples and tomatoes since different kinds can look similar.

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u/Tricky_Spirit 2d ago

I worked cashier for ~5 years. I still couldn't tell you all the codes for apple varieties, but I had a dozen codes memorized across produce and the full UPC codes for 24 pack water and distilled water, because I hated pulling them out from underneath the carts so one day when they were stocked up at register, I just studied their number over and over again and wrote it down.

It always surprised customers when they asked if I wanted them to get the water and I'd just tap the screen pointed towards them, laugh and go, "Got it!"

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u/ThellraAK 2d ago

I was a cashier for one summer and I still remember 11 and being pissed when they changed to to 4011.

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u/Callinon 2d ago

4060 is broccoli. 4664 for yellow onions. 

Was a cashier for 7 years... 20 years ago. My brain let go of most of the codes I'd memorized, but it hung on to a few of them. When I started, the registers that let you search and scroll a list were not yet a thing. We had a laminated sheet of paper with 100+ PLUs on it next to us if we needed to look one up. Fruits tended to have the stickers, but vegetables almost never did, so those were the ones you had to really commit to memory. 

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u/CedarParkArea 2d ago

Those produce codes are universal for grocery stores.

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u/Tricky_Spirit 2d ago

Oh yeah, hence why I said 'any grocery store'. The only PLU that wasn't universal at our store was our organic produce was prepended with an 8, so organic bananas were 84011. Which I don't think is a universal code.

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u/Witticism44 2d ago

At ours, organic was a 9 and then the normal code

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u/Tricky_Spirit 2d ago

Oh man now you and the guy above have me doubting my memory on organic produce, maybe it was 9 and I'm misremembering. I only ever got to sell organic bananas because one of my regulars preferred them, and working 10PM-6AM, I didn't get a lot of the healthy shoppers, mostly just prison guards grabbing their lunches before shift.

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u/HellOfAThing 2d ago

I recognize 80085 from calculators in elementary school. But why is 4011 for bananas funny?

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u/jcnlb 2d ago

I’ve been trying to figure this out too. Let me know if you find out.

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u/HKN47 2d ago

4065 for green bell peppers

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u/Alternative_Ebb9564 2d ago

4735 for pumpkins....

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u/Spiritchaser84 2d ago

Shame that code isn't for melons.

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u/nickipps 2d ago

Shame this wasn't a first tier comment. It should be higher up

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u/Farmer4Lyfe 2d ago

Did he actually say 80085 or did he just say 80085?

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u/aaronstj 2d ago

Ooh, I get to tell a proper old person story! When I was a kid, Costco didn’t use scanners, they only used the 5-digit codes. So back then, Costco cashiers knew almost all of the codes by heart. It was pretty impressive.

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u/hanksredditname 2d ago

Was at self checkout and had to get help. Had a nice laugh when I watch the guy punch in the code.

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 2d ago

I'm glad I read this comment. I thought you were talking about the word pumpkin being spelled out. 🤪

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u/SEDGE-DemonSeed 2d ago

Your store has walkies for cashiers? We just yell lmao.

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u/jay_caesar 2d ago

Costco missed the opportunity to assign that code to melons 👀

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u/Fhotaku 6h ago

Petah, I'm holding pumpkins!

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u/can-you-repeat-that- 2d ago

Too bad it wasn’t the code of melons

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u/gameniac 2d ago

No, they're saying "Boo BS." Are you saying "boobs" or "Boo BS?" BOOBS! "I was saying Boo BS."

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u/primummovens 2d ago

I was saying 'Boo-urns'

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u/presvil 2d ago

Insert woman yelling at cat meme

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u/redgrrr 1d ago

That's BS

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u/YogiBarelyThere 2d ago

I hope you got some whipped cream for those pumpkin tits.

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u/shtcricket 2d ago

That cranberry fizz drink is nasty tho. Was very disappointed.

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u/Noble1xCarter 2d ago

Thanks for clarifying, I was wondering what "popping corn fizz" was

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u/I-Am-The-SquidQueen 2d ago

You can ship me your leftovers. I’m obsessed with the stuff

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u/shtcricket 2d ago

If it’s like ICE cold I can tolerate it. Would rather drink any other flavor I think though.

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u/johnnyma45 2d ago

They don’t have the poppi blueberry variety pack right now and my son wanted to grab the cranberry. Hold the fucking phone I said

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u/frogguts198 2d ago

Its actually one of my favorite flavors of Poppi.

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u/preda1or 2d ago

80085 always wins!

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u/Farewellandadieu 2d ago

Good thing they weren’t out of pumpkins or you’d be 55378008

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u/You_are_safe_now 2d ago

"Boobs" - Kevin

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u/anoftz 2d ago

When I was a teenager we used to giggle while working at the local Hannaford because Hannaford brand homogenized milk was abbreviated on the register as "HARD HOMO MILK"

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u/Pug_Mom2 2d ago

And the price: 6 ate 9 🤣

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u/Chesticle5 2d ago

$23.99 for a bag of chocolate!?

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u/phalo 2d ago

It's probably a huge bag of Halloween candy. Price sounds about right

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u/Chesticle5 2d ago

You’re right. I looked it up and it actually costs MORE at Costco 🤯

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u/fatloui 2d ago

Where does it cost less?

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u/Chesticle5 2d ago

I’m high. I thought this was a receipt from Whole Foods.

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u/MisterSneakSneak 2d ago

It’s okay brother. We all make mistakes when we are inhaling the goodness

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u/jcnlb 2d ago

They are 92 ounce bags of chocolate. They are huge. The price is really a good price for a ton of candy.

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u/Chesticle5 2d ago

A ton is 2,000 pounds. I thought you said it was 92 ounces??

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u/jcnlb 2d ago

You just aren’t familiar with American weights lol

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u/Chesticle5 2d ago

I’m familiar with North American weights 🤔

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u/redgrrr 1d ago

What every kid typed into their first calculator before showing it to their friends.

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u/Proper-Application69 2d ago

Hey, nice pumpkins.

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u/KoppeDFO 2d ago

Ha boobs

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u/Soosietyrell 2d ago

That’s gotta be intentional

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u/helloureddit 2d ago

should be for Melons!

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u/rosephoenix19 1h ago

Do you think the Xennial employees that have picked up on this have little side jokes about it.

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u/PinkRainbow95 2d ago

4736 is the number where I work

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u/Zyrinj 2d ago

I too would like boobs pumpkin, unfortunate that it was 10 cents cheaper than it should have been

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u/ChewyBaccus 2d ago

Do they come in pairs?

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u/EvilToastedWeasel0 2d ago

They must be some really big.... (clears throat) uh...

Pumpkins.

Yeah, those.

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u/Drudgework 2d ago

Pumpkins are not melons, they are gourds

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u/TDYDave2 2d ago

Seems like this should be the code for melons, not pumpkins.

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u/ac_cossack 2d ago

You know how to carve it.

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u/ddodd69 2d ago

Also a 7777 in the Poppcrnfizz!

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u/stranded_egg 2d ago

Buy one, get one?

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u/KolyaV1 2d ago

Whoever set up that PLU definitely knew what they were doing and chuckled to themselves all the way through their shift.

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u/abdhjops 2d ago

Noice

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u/hiddenprides 2d ago

hee hee ha ha

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u/hiddenprides 2d ago

hee hee ha ha

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u/LuckyNumberHat 2d ago

That's a lot to handle.

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u/jhadred 2d ago

The important question is, did you get two of them?

Also Elvira - 2 big pumpkins https://youtu.be/vS7c41AbjQI?si=3Zx8d5ffKJHSsMpW

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u/Dragons0ulight 1d ago

Lol, I'm such a child. No matter how old I get,I still get a chuckle out of it.

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u/Scholarly_Koala 2d ago

Should have bought two. Two big pumpkins.

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u/AdPlane90 2d ago

lol pumpkin tits

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u/Champlainmeri 2d ago

Too soon. #dolly

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u/Minute987 2d ago

This is funny if you're 9.

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u/bomilk19 2d ago

Or 69.

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u/pastalover1 2d ago

800 would be more appropriate.

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u/werther595 2d ago

Shoulda been reserved for 🍒

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u/fiberguy1999 2d ago

Creative use of AI??? I enjoy creativity.