WASHINGTON — One last time, for the record: It was not an ordinary supermarket scanner. A February 1992 newspaper story reporting that President George H.W. Bush was baffled by a supermarket bar-code ...
George J. Laurer, whose design of the ubiquitous vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed human beings, including airline ...
As shoppers pack stores in search of Black Friday deals, a North Carolina born invention keeps the checkout lines moving: the Universal Product Code. Each beep of the scanner can be traced back to ...
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