(NEXSTAR) – Look at any Aldi-brand product for more than a few seconds, and you’ll undoubtedly notice a peculiar quantity of barcodes, some of which extend along the entire length of the product. They ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – Two people accused of stealing from Walmart multiple times over the summer are in custody. Police said 51-year-old Leslie D. Vieweg and 35-year-old Garett P. Hosier could be ...

They look like pixelated puzzles, or maybe a printing error. But the indecipherable ink squares hold the promise of a new form of mobile information delivery that ...

These days, almost all retail operations use a bar-coded inventory and retail sales system. An item cannot be entered into a cash register without a bar code or its accompanying number. Knowing the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A New York man is behind bars in Washington County after allegedly buying $33,000 in merchandise for $1100 using forged bar codes. Jose Modesto Adon-Cano was first arrested on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Supermarket-style bar codes will soon be required on every medication given to hospitalized patients, to help ensure they get the right dose of the right drug at the right time.

Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...

Adobe Systems is set to expand its electronic forms with new capabilities for adding bar codes to forms based on the company's portable document format. The technology, announced Monday, will allow ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - Wal-Mart Stores last week was scheduled to launch the largest test to date to determine whether produce items can be bar-coded and scanned at the POS. Loblaw Cos., Toronto, is ...

The Food and Drug Administration is phasing in rules that will require bar codes on hospital medication packets to guard against errors that cause an estimated 7,000 deaths annually. Inside hospital ...