Ship Bottom Brewery teamed up with GS1 US and Avery Dennison and used 2D barcodes on their ales as an engagement tool to see which customers consumed the new flavors. We rely on QR codes for a number ...

Ramon Ray explains how businesses can use 2D barcodes and highlights new barcode scanner products from Wasp Barcode Technologies. “We use barcodes so much in our lives. Unfortunately we smaller ...

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, ...

Retailers are revisiting their reliance on self-checkouts, driven by a need to address shrink, reduce losses, and deliver a better customer experience. As new technologies change the landscape, it’s ...

The retail and supply chain sectors are experiencing their most significant transformation since the barcode’s introduction in 1974. By December 31, 2027, businesses must ensure their point-of-sale ...

Sprint has announced a partnership with 2D barcode specialists Scanbuy to put software capable of decoding the black & white symbols blocks onto select Sprint handsets. 2D barcodes can be used to ...

GS1, the standards body for supply chains, has released a readiness test kit to help retailers, brands and manufacturers and solution providers assess where they are in the journey toward ...

The start of the new year brings the retail industry closer to an important inflection point. By the beginning of 2027, every point of sale (POS) system must be able to scan 2D barcodes such as QR ...

Sprint mobile phones can now read 2D barcodes, making it simpler for the carrier's customers to get product information via mobile. 2D barcodes are simple black-and-white images, but each one is ...