The last thing numbers on fruit stickers tell you is the supplier or grower of the produce. “For instance, we put the Stemilt logo on our apple stickers so that consumers can look for our brand ...

ISBNs, PINs, bar codes, EANs, card and reference numbers - most objects or services available to us have a numeric sequence attached to them. Even the humble piece of fruit gets branded with a number.

THE odds are you have never thought about it before, but there’s a reason the stickers on fruit and veg have numbers on them. As well as having a bar code the stickers boast a PLU code, or pr… ...