On a June morning in 1974, a Marsh Supermarket cashier in Troy, Ohio, rang up a 67-cent pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum using something novel — the black and white stripes of a universal bar code. The ...

What's black and white and read all over? Bar codes that can tell us who manufactured a product and where it's been — except when it comes to the financial services industry. Here, financial firms and ...

The universal product code, or UPC, is a bar code that typically has 12 digits and is usually found on the back or bottom of perishable and non-perishable products. To claim a refund for a defective ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...

WENDELL, N.C. (AP) — George J. Laurer, whose invention of the Universal Product Code at IBM transformed retail and other industries around the world, has died. He was 94. A funeral was held on Monday ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The black and white barcode found on most products is celebrating its 50th anniversary since the first scan right here in the Miami Valley. The first ever Universal Product Code ...