"Announcing ShopSavvy 3.6 for Android. It has been an amazing year for Android and the Android version of ShopSavvy. Of course we owe a LOT to our partners including Google, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon..."
It appears that you are completely wrong in your stated assumption in reply to JP.
BTW...Where did you get your information that you posted ("A major brand requested they add the symbology and paid them five grand to upload the code.")?
Here again, is the fact, not fabrication...
"Previously I have written about why we didn’t support QR codes. Recently Google announced their Google Favorite Places program whereby Google mailed QR code window stickers to something like 190,000 local retailers. These QR codes are tied to Google local search feature and allows the retailer to include coupons and special offers to users who scan the codes. In light of this new feature and its connection to retail shopping we decided it was time to support QR code scanning. ShopSavvy will now scan all 1D and 2D barcodes." http://www.biggu.com/blog/