QR Codes are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get when you go through the bother of pulling out your cell phone, snapping a 2D code of any kind. This is ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...

The barcode has been on grocery products since 1974, when a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum became the first item ever scanned at checkout in Troy, Ohio. For ...

A consumer just scans the code already on the package, and the application provides product related information. The application now serves as an assistant to consumers doing product research in-store ...

High Speed UPC Scan Tunnel at Heart of New Advantage Checkout System; Reducing Billions of Touches Annually; Bearish Bet on RFID in Grocery; What will Kroger Do? Since May of 2010, grocery retail ...

Nonprofit information standards organization GS1 US is celebrating the first bar code scan’s “Scanniversary” on June 26, 1974. GS1 US, the administrator of the UPC bar codes, says the first bar code ...

ScanLife links consumers to product info via UPC bar code scanning ScanLife has launched a new feature that lets consumers scan UPC bar codes from books, DVDs and electronics to get pricing ...