The shift from 1D to 2D barcodes is making packaging smarter, more connected and ready for GS1 Sunrise 2027.

Today, millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Barcode Standards. GS1, the not-for-profit organization behind global barcode standards, has a bold goal designed to help ...

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 ...

Supply-chain standards organization GS1 US has released a Barcode Capabilities Test Kit to help retailers gauge their readiness to shift from linear Universal Product Codes (UPCs) to data-rich 2D ...

EWING, N.J., May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New research commissioned by GS1 US and conducted by VDC Research shows that organizations implementing two-dimensional (2D) barcodes in warehouse and ...

Christoph Wagner is the CEO of Scanbot SDK, a software development company specializing in data capture software for mobile and web apps. Considering how quickly retail is changing, it is astounding ...

The UPC barcode, appearing as a sequence of vertical lines on a product label, revolutionized the retail industry 50 years ago by automating price lookup at checkout. While the technology has endured, ...

Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit proved that even the smallest of items could ...

FDA will standardize NDCs to a 12-digit (6-4-2) structure, addressing 5-digit labeler-code constraints while creating a ...

Wasp Barcode Technologies, a leading provider of small business productivity solutions, today announced the launch of its new line of barcode scanners. The WLS9600 and WLS8600 are designed for ...

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