If you sell products to your customers, many of the items probably already have UPC barcodes you scan when ringing up sales. However, you can use barcodes on products or items for other purposes as ...

Virtually everything that you buy in your local supermarket has a curious little zebra-like pattern the size of a postage stamp printed on it. Barcodes, originally devised about 40 years ago to label ...

While the media coverage of the new SmartLabel initiative has focused on shoppers’ enthusiasm (or lack, thereof) for scanning QR codes as they shop, or whether it’s just an elaborate ruse by ‘big food ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

In the early days of packaging, a box was simply a vessel designed for protection and delivery. But in this day and age of digital transformation, packaging has become a smart, interactive interface ...

The retail and supply chain sectors are experiencing their most significant transformation since the barcode’s introduction ...

QR codes are a type of barcode, or scannable pattern, that contain various forms of data, like website links, account information, phone numbers, or even coupons. QR codes are found everywhere from ...

New Delhi: The barcode that revolutionised supermarket checkout and facilitated retail globalisation is turning 50. Over the years, the stripes shown below on packages of products supermarkets, ...