Today in 1974, a Universal Product Code (UPC) label was used to ring up purchases at a supermarket for the first time
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The first UPC ever scanned is on a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum (now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History), which was purchased at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, utilizing NCR scanners.
Here’s how I managed the first barcode scanning system installed in Israel and what I learned from the experience.