BARCODES in supermarkets could soon become a thing of the past as stores begin trialling a new generation of QR codes on ...

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 ...

Tesco started trialling QR codes last year, with customers given recipes and storage instructions when they scan products ...

A major change is coming to supermarket checkouts soon.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The checkout has changed over the years. First, cashiers manually punched in the price of an item, then the scanners made check-out much quicker, and today, there's self-check-out.

QR code, short for Quick Response Code, is a kind of matrix barcode that includes information about a product or service. You can find it being used for advertising purposes, where brands put up ...

The initiative that gives consumers detailed product information via QR codes is gearing up for a major shift in retail technology.

Hailed as 'space-age' technology upon their launch in Britain in 1979, 'bar-coding' was praised as a wonderful invention that would speed up the weekly shop. But 50 years after being first used on ...