2 Comments for Did they have barcode's in the 1960's? When were they first introduced?

• 1. mason pearson  |  August 18th, 2011 at 2:10 pm

  The first barcode as we know it was used in 1967 in a Kroger (grocery) store in Cincinnati, Ohio USA.

  I remember then coming into real use in the early 70′s.

  For more history go here:

  adams1.com/pub/russadam/history.html

• 2. Elizabeth  |  August 18th, 2011 at 2:24 pm

  Beginning with 1932, when an ambitious project was conducted by a small group of students headed by Wallace Flint at the Harvard University

  The first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a “bull’s eye” symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles.

  Initial Uses of Bar Codes
  Serious efforts toward automating supermarket point-of-sale started in the late 1960s, and beginning in 1972 a Kroger store in Cincinnati operated using a bull’s-eye code.

  Computers and Bar Codes
  As computer systems have become more advanced, bar codes have become even more prevalent in our society. Now many retail stores, from supermarkets to hardware stores, use bar codes, and they are used in many industrial and military applications as well.

  In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley’s Gum.

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