Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, ...

The first product purchased with a barcode was a 10 pack of Juicy Fruit gum, scanned on June 26, 1974 at Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The code scanned that day was UPC-A, the same barcode used ...

to lead the team that would go on to create what is now known as the UPC-A barcode. This team consisted of William Crouse (inventor of the Delta C bar code), Heard Baumeister (calculating ...

GS1 barcodes help Yishi Foods meet their customers in the grocery aisle ...

It was while working as an electrical engineer with IBM that George Laurer fully developed the Universal Product Code (UPC), or barcode. He developed a scanner that could read codes digitally.

“Plus, as a founder you do everything yourself,” she says, “From packing and shipping to social media to buying your UPC barcodes. You are the intern and the design assistant and the social ...

Barcode Building Blocks There are two basic barcoding terms you need to know—UPC and GTIN. Many retailers require their suppliers to use Global Trade Item Numbers (or GTINs) in their product ...

As recent events demonstrate, tainted food can be deadly. Here, industry experts discuss ways we can shore up the supply chain to protect consumers.

Lidl said that all of the affected packages have a UPC barcode reading 4056489365365. The macarons were sold at the company's ...

Barcodes are commonly used to track items like groceries or clothing, but University of Central Florida researchers have developed a special "barcode" to identify much smaller objects: molecules ...

The 1970s were an irrefutably iconic era in history. The decade gave us bell bottoms, the Disco revolution, and plenty of ...

Alongside the monkeys, each human member of McEnroe's team at IBM also deserves credit for the Universal Product Code (UPC), as their version of the barcode became formally known. Among their ...