Forty years ago today, a cashier at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum bearing an odd-looking set of alternating black and white lines. The barcode had ...

It was met with more criticism than even Michael Moore could have mustered. Union representatives said it would steal American jobs. Conspiracy theorists believed it was intrusively "Big Brother." ...

Bucklin, Randolph E., and Sunil Gupta. "Commercial Use of UPC Scanner Data: Industry and Academic Perspectives." Marketing Science 18, no. 3 (1999): 247–273.

WENDELL, N.C. -- George J. Laurer, the man who invented the Universal Product Code (UPC) and called Wendell his home died Thursday. He was 94. The groundbreaking electrical engineer worked at IBM for ...

As phones, planners, cameras and miniature computers, cell phones provide many convenient functions for businesses. One of the newest features allows you to look up information based on barcodes.

GS1, the standards body for supply chains, has released a readiness test kit to help retailers, brands and manufacturers and solution providers assess where they are in the journey toward ...

QR codes have always been controversial. Some people love and praise them; some don’t see their utility and call them annoying. The system has been getting this attention due to its large storage ...