MINNEAPOLIS — For food retailers, coupons on mobile phones present two problems: The cashier needs an image scanner to scan the 2-D coupon bar code — most grocers use laser scanners not suited for ...

If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...

The new Samsung Galaxy S4 will include 1-D barcode-scanning technology from start-up Mobeam that enables users to scan their handsets at point-of-sale terminals. Mobeam claims that the vast majority ...

As consumers, we rarely think about barcodes as anything more than the series of lines and spaces on the items we bring to the checkout counter. At most, perhaps, we note how much quicker and more ...

Barcode technology offers many benefits to retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries. For example, they enable more accurate inventory management, real-time visibility into products and ...