If he had followed instructions from his boss, George Laurer might never have succeeded in designing the Universal Product Code. In 1971, a supervisor at International Business Machines Corp. told the ...

Product bar codes were originally developed to help with inventory tracking and speed up checkout at grocery stores. The relative speed and ease of use of the bar code system, or Universal Product ...

The universal product code, or UPC, is a bar code that typically has 12 digits and is usually found on the back or bottom of perishable and non-perishable products. To claim a refund for a defective ...

SKUs are for internal use while UPCs are for external use. Here's how to use both codes in a small business. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...