The initiative by the standards organization could bring traditional 1D barcodes into the 2D world of data matrix and QR-codes. After five decades of barcode use at the point of sale, the technology ...

The retail and supply chain sectors are experiencing their most significant transformation since the barcode’s introduction ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

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, ...

By the beginning of 2027, every point of sale (POS) system must be able to scan 2D barcodes such as QR codes in the GS1 ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. We’re in a time when the business landscape constantly shifts into ...

Forward-looking: For almost five decades, the humble barcode has been found on the packaging of almost every consumer item in the world. But there's a push to get rid of them within just two years, ...

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 ...