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 ...

Forty years ago Thursday, the purchase of a 67-cent (U.S.) package of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, received what may have seemed like an undue amount of attention. With ...

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than ...

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 ...

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, ...