Target Brands, Inc.

Eric B Erickson

Ted C Halbur

Kim O Lindahl

Bonnie Eggleston

John J Kaiser

John J Butcher

David Sha

Ellen A Boldt

Kelly Kuhn-Wallace

Vicki L Domka

Barcodes are provided that convey images to help consumers and/or to help identify information about the origin of an article. The images conveyed by the barcodes may be associated with a merchant, a department, an event, a season, a theme or a product, for example. The barcodes may be placed on any number of articles including purchaser receipts, gift receipts, marketing receipt coupons, paper coupons, electronic coupons, rewards cards, gift cards, registry printouts, and products/packaging, for example. Under some embodiments, the barcodes help consumers to associate articles with a particular merchant or department. Under other embodiments, the barcodes help consumers to distinguish purchaser receipts from gift receipts. In some embodiments, the barcodes are generated dynamically by altering font-based barcodes to convey the image.

Barcodes with graphical elements

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Eric B Erickson