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(CNN) — Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of...

Is it the inventor or implementer? This question remains up for debate.

The barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday, its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones.

(CNN) — Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of...

The barcode that revolutionised supermarket checkout and facilitated retail globalisation is turning 50. However, its days may be numbered as it competes with the more recent QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones

The barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday

A barcode is a machine-readable representation of numerals and characters. It consists of bars and spaces of varying width that can be read with an optical barcode scanner. -- aaa

PARIS: The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionised checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the...

PARIS: The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionized checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalization of retail is turning 50. But as the barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday, its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones. The trademark beep as a product is

The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionised checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalisation of retail is turning 50.