Dead Barcode
Uh oh—your barcode doesn’t scan—at all. Now what do you do? What to DO Here is what you don’t do—reach for your smartphone. If your smartphone also doesn’t scan your barcode you have learned [...]
How Important is Barcode Quality?
The importance of barcode quality is not a rhetorical question. Barcode quality is very important. Barcodes are the connective tissue that holds supply chains together. Bad barcodes used to be [...]
The Next Big Barcode Problem
Barcodes were invented to solve a problem. That is why they exist. Market research by Kroger led to the first retail scanning of a barcode in 1974. From there, every evolutionary step in barcode [...]
Barcode Evolution: What is Next?
Recently we sprinted through the history about how barcode types have developed by solving problems. Today there are dozens of different types of barcodes. Special capabilities of each barcode [...]