Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old.

Walmart’s hidden barcodes bust “skip scanners” trying to swipe without paying. REUTERS In a company-wide memo this month, Walmart US CEO John Furner and Walmart Global CTO Suresh Kumar said ...

The first barcode was famously scanned on June 26, 1974, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. Since then, the humble black-and-white data carrier has entered virtually every industry, from retail ...