It’s hard to believe the bar code is turning 50. Anyone who was a cashier in the ’80s knows how life-changing it was to scan the product instead of typing in the product category and price. Designed ...
Some technologies you use every day, but without thinking about them. The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are ...
George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer. Forty ...
If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Boulder – Jonathan Baldino might be off the “nice” list. Police say Baldino used homemade bar codes to buy electronic gadgets at prices far below any ...
Last week, the venerable New York Times ran an article on the bar code turning 35 years old (see Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35). The article contained this jarring statement, which ...
Bar code scanning has become the de facto system used in retail, as well as many other industries, due to its accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness. Moreover, it is an approach that provides ...
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