The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going ...

Beep. You hear it every time you buy a product in a retail store. The checkout person slides your purchase over a scanner embedded in their checkout stand, or shoots it with a handheld scanner. The ...

Can Excel create barcodes? Yes, and it’s as easy as downloading the correct fonts. You don’t have to purchase any of those barcode software programs that you can find online unless you need a more ...

It was met with more criticism than even Michael Moore could have mustered. Union representatives said it would steal American jobs. Conspiracy theorists believed it was intrusively "Big Brother." ...

Ed. Note: This article was previously posted at Retail TouchPoints. It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC—first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery ...

GearChain has launched a free Bulk GS1 Digital Link and Barcode Label Printer that streamlines how businesses create and print barcode labels at scale. The new tool enables users to generate UPC, Code ...

Marketers have been experimenting for several years with QR codes and other mobile barcodes like the SnapTag, printing them on packaging, signs, and just about every other medium to drive brand and ...

Country barcode prefixes do not indicate where a product was made, only the country where the company that makes the product is registered. Also, Israel hasn't changed its barcode prefix. Since ...

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