Every e-commerce merchant begins by employing a manual stock-picking system for their products. However, this is an arduous process in the long run. Furthermore, this approach can quickly turn into an ...

The concept of the barcode — an alphabet made up of thick and thin bars — came into being in the 1950s. It took another quarter of a century for one to be printed on product packaging and scanned.

Properly managing inventory requires a system of some sort. It doesn't matter if the system consists of writing inventory levels on the back of an envelope or using the most sophisticated radio ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2016 /CNW/ -- Vend, the leading cloud-based retail management system that powers over 15,000 stores worldwide, today released a free mobile inventory scanner app as part of its ...

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, ...

As consumers, we rarely think about barcodes as anything more than the series of lines and spaces on the items we bring to the checkout counter. At most, perhaps, we note how much quicker and more ...

In supermarkets, cashiers usually pass goods through a scanner at the checkout counter, where barcode technology is used to ...