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| Major change to supermarket checkouts as 50-year shopping feature ‘axed’
I remember when the bar code came to be required for 80% of the suppliers to Walmart. Oh boy. Things are changing. Supposeably a lot of scanners can already read QR codes. I was in Sam's club and saw that some of the items had both bar codes and QR codes. I thought it was an advertising gimmick.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/major-change-to-supermarket-ch...
For the last 50 years, whenever you’ve bought something in a store, a barcode will likely have been scanned at the checkout – whether it was at a supermarket or clothing store. However, all this could be set to change in the next few years, as retailers are going to be ditching ‘old-fashioned’ barcodes with lines and replacing them with modern square, pixel-based QR codes. This is according to GS1, the world’s only authorised provider of Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) – the unique number that powers each and every barcode. They claim the new codes are capable of holding much more information about products, such as ingredients, possible allergens and could even provide recipe suggestions for food items | |
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Major change to supermarket checkouts as 50-year shopping feature ‘axed’
