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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Question : Can you find out what is on the back of a state ID and driver’s license card ? I see a barcode and a mashed symbol. What information is in it, and is it sensitive ? An entity is ...

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.

Beep! 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.

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 ...