Long's Drugs uses a no-longer-secret code to indicate wholesale price on tags - UPDATED

Long's Drugs uses a simple letter/number code to indicate on its price tags the wholesale cost for each item on sale. The code has been cracked and now you can find out exactly how much Long's makes on your purchases!

So, for example, if a candy bar has a retail price of 0.44, it might have a cost code of HL, indicating that Longs Drugs pays 0.25 for it.

The Longs Drugs Price code appears in the middle of many of their on-shelf pricetags. It is two, three or four letters.

Here, the ANT stands for 308, meaning that the Longs Store paid $3.08 for the M&Ms, and will make 91 on the retail sale.

Link (via Waxy)

Update: Jack sez, "It might also be interesting to note that Walgreens uses a similar system, except with the word BRUSHCLEAN B1 R2 U3 S4 H5 C6 L7 E8 A9 N0"