Commercial-grade barcode technology can improve the customer experience in numerous ways. Omnichannel retailers use barcodes to quickly locate in-stock items and “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS) ...

Barcodes are far more than just a series of black and white lines on your favourite products. Here’s everything you need to ...

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.

The barcode also unleashed many more kinds of barcodes, including siblings of the original with more lines representing more numbers and letters, and distant cousins that look nothing like it.

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the barcode—more than 6 billion are scanned every single day. Here’s what to know about their history.

The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old.

Manufacturers can use GS1-coded barcodes and enrich product information with detailed descriptions, usage instructions or allergen content. QR codes can also do more than link you to a website.

The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old.

Among the barcode scanner apps, by far the most popular is Yuka, launched by a team of young French entrepreneurs in 2017. Yuka co-founders Julie Chapon, ...

The 2D barcode shift takes time and resources, however. GS1 therefore proposes a transition phase in which manufacturers put both the one-dimensional GTIN barcode and a 2D barcode on their packaging.

When I began combing through the archive of barcode history at Stony Brook University, I realized just how close we came to a world where we scan bull’s-eye or sun symbols to buy our groceries ...