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Bar Codes and Barcode Scanners

by amcgee@bettergamer.net on Dec 13, 2011

When bar Bar Codes and Barcode Scanners first became available, the task of inventory control and stock management changed forever. As revolutionary as bar code scanners were, advancements continue to change stock management.Patented in the late 1950s the first stock and inventory management code was circular and described as a bulls eye. Surprisingly the first imagined use of the bar code was one that we all know today, the reading of product details at grocery store checkout counters. Although speeding checkout and eliminating errors was the main reason for the development of the code, use in inventory management and stock control took the bar code under its wing first. That makes sense because product checked out in a super market must first be purchase, stored and inventoried.The first use, commercially, for bar codes was in 1966 but because there had been difficulties during development, several competing systems existed. The retail grocery industry soon called for...Read More >>



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When bar Bar Codes and Barcode Scanners first became available, the task of inventory control and stock management changed forever. As revolutionary as bar code scanners were, advancements continue to change stock management.Patented in the late 1950s the first stock and inventory management code was circular and described as a bulls eye. Surprisingly the first imagined use of the bar code was one that we all know today, the reading of product details at grocery store checkout counters. Although speeding checkout and eliminating errors was the main reason for the development of the code,...

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