A report has claimed that barcodes could vanish from UK shops over the coming years. The report from GS1 UK said that other ways of tracking items could allow consumers to have more insight into what ...

On 26 June, 1974, a packet of Juicy Fruit chewing gum passed through the checkout at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, becoming the first ever item to have its barcode scanned. Within months, millions of ...

Today, is the last day you can use stamps without a barcode in the UK, as the Royal Mail moves to modernise the UK mailing system. Anyone using un-barcoded stamps after the deadline will risk a ...

On the 50th anniversary of the now-ubiquitous barcode, did you know a supermarket in Lincolnshire was the first UK retailer to use the technology? It was on 3 April 1973 that an international ...

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, ...