Even the smallest operational detail can make or break a product’s success, and few details are as deceptively simple yet powerful as a barcode. For businesses that manufacture, package, or sell ...

Although barcodes are currently utilized mainly to keep track of merchandise, they may soon also be used to detect counterfeit goods. We're not talking about ordinary barcode labels, however. Instead, ...

Choosing a barcode scanner may seem acceptable at first sight. After all, isn't scanning just scanning? But offer a little ...

Selling a new product in South Africa is not easy. Besides dealing with the product design, you are constantly in touch with retailers and distributors, trying to get your product out there as far and ...

Foursquare and Facebook Places are popularizing the location check-in. Instagram and PicPlz are perfecting the photo check-in. Is the product check-in next? Billy Chasen, the founder of ...

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.

Barcodes that originated in Israel may have numbers beginning 729. This doesn’t mean those products were manufactured there. Not all barcodes for products or companies based in Israel will have this ...

Barcodes can show where the company that applied for the barcode is based, but that isn’t necessarily the same as where a product was produced. A number of posts on social media claim that consumers ...

Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver invented the barcode, patenting the technology in 1952. The first retail item ...