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50 years ago, the first retail barcode was scanned at an Ohio grocery store

Vintage photo from Carillon Park display shows the NCR 255 register and barcode scanner in action. Fifty years ago at Marsh’s grocery store in Troy, a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the ...
Forbes

An Industry Stuck In 1974: Why Are We Still Using 1D Barcodes?

Christoph Wagner is the CEO of Scanbot SDK, a software development company specializing in data capture software for mobile and web apps. Considering how quickly retail is changing, it is astounding ...
JD Supra

Two-Dimensional Barcodes: How 2D Could Change Retail

Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...
Supply Chain

How RFID and 2D Tags Will Drive Supply Chain Innovation

This year marks a major milestone in retail supply chain technology: the 50th anniversary of the very first retail barcode scan. On June 26, 1974, the first Universal Product Code (UPC) was scanned on ...
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Digimarc Enables One of the CPG Industry’s Largest Global Rollouts of 2D Barcodes with Unilever, Improving Retail and Consumer Experience

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Digimarc Corporation (DMRC) (NASDAQ: DMRC), a global leader in digital watermarking and product digitization technologies, today announced it will deploy one of the ...