Inventor Joe Woodland drew the first bar code in sand in Miami Beach, decades before technology could bring his vision to life ...

Rochester, N. Y. – It was a picture of a dress code on the window of a Rochester bar that promoted Herbert Smith to make a Facebook post. “That was the original thing,” said ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91.

Once maligned by protesters and treated with suspicion, the bar code is now taken for granted, saving stores millions annually ...

A new bar in OTR is fighting against accusations of discrimination after several people claim they were turned away from the Treehouse Patio Bar on Sycamore Street because of their look.

Can You Determine a Product's Country of Origin by Its Bar Code? Finding out where a given product was manufactured is not so simple as looking at its bar code.

That old grocery-store standby, the bar code on every mop, magazine, and Mars bar, celebrated its 30th birthday this year. Considering the drastic advances in computing since 1974, it should come ...