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by MartinMcGirk 5080 days ago
In case anyone is interested, I've spoken to a friend of mine who was once a manager at Tesco and I can shed a little more light on the matter. The red number which the author had so far been unable to decipher is the "discount-reason-code", which represents the reason for the discount. These reasons represent things like "damaged" or "short date (nearly out of date)".