Discover the old-school supermarket chain where the first barcode was scanned -- and how that single moment revolutionized ...

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 strong.

The global market for Barcode Plastic Cards was valued at US$1.5 Billion in 2024 and is projected to reach US$2.1 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.3% from 2024 to 2030. Thi ...

In 1952 a pair of graduate students from school then called the Drexel Institute of Technology, patented a system for instant electronic recall of product information using patterns of lines of ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial ...

To marvel at the choice and convenience of modern shopping, go visit your grocery-store mustard aisle. My local Whole Foods sells more than 20 different kinds: basic yellow mustard and Grey Poupon, ...

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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 ...

When Alan Haberman came to San Francisco to upend the global economy---which in the end he did---he wasn't seeking venture capitalists or software engineers. This was the early 1970s, when a computer ...

Wedge barcode scanners and serial barcode scanners both connect to a PC to scan barcodes into the system. They do not, however, work the same way and each has advantages and disadvantages. This ...

Digital driver’s licenses — now being built in many states — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the likelihood that once they make it very frictionless to share our ID, we are likely ...

Various microRNAs (miRNAs), 19- to 25-nucleotide-long small non-coding RNAs, act as regulators in biological processes such as gene expression, tumorigenesis, cell proliferation and apoptosis, via ...