Don't forget the looming GEPIR® Database migration to what's apparently an "AI"-based implementation, folks

From the GEPIR Dashboard (US version):

The new tool will probably be located here (https: //www.gs1us.org/tools/data-lookup rather than the previous URL, https: //www.gs1us.org/tools/gs1-company-database-gepir, linked above without the break):

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And, of course, the required followup question:
How will Amazon use this to make my life harder?

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What are the implications here?

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There are many, as far as the eye can see - as is most-always true when a Global Standards-policing entity makes even the tiniest change in established processes & procedures, as has been demonstrated time and again throughout Recorded History (and with an alarmingly-increasing frequency in the Digital Age) - but my main motivation in posting this heads-up topic-thread is akin to what our @HobbesIsMyTiger so-eloquently illustrates with this upthread reply (emphasis mine), re: unintended consequences:


It may be worthwhile to note that GS1 has been relatively mute on this subject for all of our Global Accounts’ unsolicited communications from that entity.

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Bumping this because the migration date, 6Dec`23, is now upon us.

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