In 1948, a supermarket executive showed up at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia with a request: He wanted the engineers there to design a technology that could encode information ...
On a June morning in 1974, a Marsh Supermarket cashier in Troy, Ohio, rang up a 67-cent pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum using something novel — the black and white stripes of a universal bar code. The ...
Product bar codes were originally developed to help with inventory tracking and speed up checkout at grocery stores. The relative speed and ease of use of the bar code system, or Universal Product ...
The invention that transformed the supply chain---the Universal Product Code bar code--turns 35 on June 26. The UPC bar code has 59 machine readable black and white bars that identify products and its ...
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