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Regarding the leap: she did probably just imagine this as working similarly to the milk cartons: they reuse some other factory, but in this case could omit the labeling. So she browsed the store, looking for a similar bag.
I feel it would have worked better if she scanned the barcode on the bag and the register actually rang it up as dog food (instead of throwing an error at the register). It's apparent that the infected are just reusing the dog food packaging from its original production site to package up whatever this powder mix is they're now producing there instead.
If it was a random package with a barcode, I'd expect the register to not recognize if it wasn't coded in the store's database, and in that situation I'd just assume it meant the store doesn't stock whatever the bag was supposed to be. But we saw it actually corresponded to something they stocked, which Carol then somehow managed to figure out impressively fast (not just recognizing it as a dog food bag, but the specific dog food bag among several that were stocked). Just makes less sense to me.
Good point. That would still have required her to check out the correct package with the label for the address, while seeming more logical.
It seemed to me that the barcode was under the dog food label, and she had to discet the bag to find it. I would assume that the barcode was from the manufacturer of the bags and not the dog food, and that's why it didn't register in Sprouts. Kinda like how Amazon boxes have like 6 barcodes on them, but one of them corresponds to the UPS tracking number, and to UPS, all the other barcodes are ignored