Can Excel create barcodes? Yes, and it’s as easy as downloading the correct fonts. You don’t have to purchase any of those barcode software programs that you can find online unless you need a more ...

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, ...

Today, millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Barcode Standards. GS1, the not-for-profit organization behind global barcode standards, has a bold goal designed to help ...

The hype about new technologies often follows a predictable pattern. We’re told a new technology is about to change the world, and then it’s often labeled a failure when it doesn’t make an immediate ...

After barcodes were put into use more than 50 years ago, the technology revolutionized the grocery business. The technology also revolutionized nearly everything else in the supply chain and logistics ...

Barcode technology makes real-time data collection possible. Despite the multitude of barcodes in existence today, universal product codes remain among the most useful to a small business. Because UPC ...

Viral images on social media make the claim that barcode prefixes can identify where a particular product was made ( here, here). Different instances of this post are making this claim to encourage ...

Ed. Note: This article was previously posted at Retail TouchPoints. It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC—first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery ...