What was the first product ever to have a barcode ??
What was the first product ever to have a barcode ??
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The first company to produce bar code equipment for retail trade use (using UGPIC) was the American company Monarch Marking in 1970, and for industrial use, the British company Plessey Telecommunications was also first in 1970. UGPIC evolved into the U.P.C. symbol set or Universal Product Code, which is still used in the United States. George J. Laurer is considered the inventor of U.P.C. or Uniform Product Code, which was invented in 1973.
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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1. Work is for Busters | May 2nd, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Ivory Soap
2. BlueSea | May 2nd, 2010 at 9:09 pm
A 10 pack of Wrigley’s Gum.
And the first girl just cut and pasted WITHOUT giving her source.
I looked it up on Wikipedia. Hmph!
3. nicholas_818 | May 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 pm
A roll of barcodes
4. sarahpsdad | May 2nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
The first product to be scanned by its bar code was a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum. I assume it was the first product to have one as well.
5. leiman83 | May 2nd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
It was a pack of Wrrigley’s chewing gum at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on 6/26/74.
6. star gazer | May 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
[edit] History
Wallace Flint proposed an automated checkout system in 1932 using punch cards.[1] Joseph Woodland patented a bull’s-eye style code in 1952 and the first commercial use of barcodes was in 1966. [2]
In1970 Logicon Inc. created the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC). In 1970 it was used by Monarch Marking in the United States and Plessey Telecommunications in the United Kingdom. [3]
A group of grocery industry trade associations formed the Uniform Grocery Product Code Council which with consulting firm McKinsey & Company defined the predecessor to the Uniform Product Code. In 1973 George J. Laurer developed the Universal Product Code.[4]
The first item to be placed under a UPC scanner in a retail store was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Chewing Gum at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on June 26, 1974.[1]
Yup, it was the gum!
7. David H | May 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Barcodes were first used in the 1970′s, at first they were there to identify products on the shelfs for stock taking purposes, but as the technology advanced and grocery stores got devices to read them at the register, and as time goes on they will become more advanced.
Here in Canada we have check outs that allow you to do it yourself, pay for it, bag it and go on your way. I do this, it is fast and very few line ups.
8. HeathySurprise | May 3rd, 2010 at 12:09 am
First ever product to have a bar code is unknown, since they where various at the same time, from a project by students of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1932. The first commercially product to hold a bar code is believed to be a pack of Wrigley´s gum, 42 years later, in 1974.
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