In a viral TikTok clip posted by Walmart worker @beatsbycait, the employee used a handheld scanner to zap six products right ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History now holds one of the first 10 scanners used to scan bar codes at the supermarket. And while it is a museum-aged technology now sometimes ...

On that day a checkout clerk slid a ten-pack of Juicy Fruit gum over a bar-code scanner at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The cash register automatically displayed the price, and an era was born.

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has a few of the pertinent facts from that day ...