Pencils without Barcodes....

Pencils without barcodes are on sale at the art shop today, 8 for £1.00.  This includes the normally expensive, coloured, water-colour variety.  What innocent fun for impecunious artists to select from the big tub of assorted pencils!

If pencils now come with bar codes, without these, they are obviously difficult to sell from the shop's point of view...  

Question is, What's next in line for compulsory bar coding?

Cars?  Holidays?  Maybe, if we're lucky, even houses?  Will there  be a sale of those without?  Where's it going to be held?