Vintage photo from Carillon Park display shows the NCR 255 register and barcode scanner in action. Fifty years ago at Marsh’s grocery store in Troy, a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the ...

Barcodes were first unveiled in 1974, and used for the first item ever scanned—a pack of Wrigley’s gum. As then, they have become vital for stores as speedier checkouts, better inventory control, and ...

The UPC barcode, appearing as a sequence of vertical lines on a product label, revolutionized the retail industry 50 years ago by automating price lookup at checkout. While the technology has endured, ...

During the course of 2009, we have seen more retailers utilizing shopper path tracking and gaze tracking to better understand how shoppers are responding to in-store promotions (both traditional and ...

This year marks a major milestone in retail supply chain technology: the 50th anniversary of the very first retail barcode scan. On June 26, 1974, the first Universal Product Code (UPC) was scanned on ...