I go to grocery stores
And Wal-Mart, too
I buy my items
With my money true
The cashiers ring them up
And very quick
It makes me wonder how they pull this trick

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Bar codes-they're here and they are there
Bar codes-heck, they're every-everywhere
Bar codes- on my uniforms
I see lots of bar codes everyday all in swarms

The scanners read them and are seldom right
And when they're wrong, I always start a fight
From books I read to items that I eat
I see them everywhere and they're so neat

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Whatever happened to old-fashioned sales?
I guess it's old hat but yet, systems do fail
Yes, life since then has been from scan to scan
Soon, we'll have robots taking over Man!

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