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 are set to disappear in favour of modern QR codes. After more than 50 years of ubiquity, the organisation that oversees the world's barcodes is preparing to consign them to the bargain bin of ...

The barcodes that appear on almost every product bought and sold in shops around the world were born 75 years ago on a beach in Miami (Credit: Alamy) Few people think twice about the barcodes on their ...

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 ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. Barcodes have been a staple of commerce since the first UPC barcode was ...

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 ...

Few people think twice about the barcodes on their shopping, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.

Key Markets in Spalding, Lincolnshire, was where the UK's first barcode was scanned in 1979 The barcode was invented in the United States in the 1940s Key Markets, a supermarket in Spalding was the ...