Every few years, the small town of Troy in Miami County, Ohio celebrates an historic occasion that for a few giddy weeks puts it on the world map of the grocery trade. At the time, National Cash ...

If he had followed instructions from his boss, George Laurer might never have succeeded in designing the Universal Product Code. In 1971, a supervisor at International Business Machines Corp. told the ...

George Joseph Laurer, who revolutionized check-out lines across the world by creating the universal bar code, died earlier this month at his home in Wendell. He was 94. Laurer helped create the ...

The invention that transformed the supply chain---the Universal Product Code bar code--turns 35 on June 26. The UPC bar code has 59 machine readable black and white bars that identify products and its ...

George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer. Forty ...

Clemson University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on ...

Bar codes turn 40 this week, but they aren’t over the hill yet. It was a Thursday morning when the first unique sticker of white and black lines facilitated the purchase of a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit ...