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 ...

There’s an old joke about how those laser scanners in the grocery store have dramatically changed the checkout-line experience. In the old days, the clerk would pick up each item, look at it, announce ...

George J. Laurer, whose design of the ubiquitous vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed human beings, including airline ...

Universal product codes -- UPCs -- are the 12-digit numbers that appear under the barcodes on many U.S. products. They are given out by GS1 US, a nonprofit group that sets standards for international ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The black and white barcode found on most products is celebrating its 50th anniversary since the first scan right here in the Miami Valley. The first ever Universal Product Code ...