The concept of the barcode — an alphabet made up of thick and thin bars — came into being in the 1950s. It took another quarter of a century for one to be printed on product packaging and scanned.

Barcode scanners are an essential product for any retail merchant. This allows store owners and sellers to identify their products and quickly get a bill generated. While barcode scanners have existed ...

As consumers, we rarely think about barcodes as anything more than the series of lines and spaces on the items we bring to the checkout counter. At most, perhaps, we note how much quicker and more ...

Warehouses, retail floors, logistics hubs and healthcare facilities all have one thing in common: speed and accuracy matter. When inventory tracking slows down or scanning errors creep in, costs rise ...