bar-code

Through the 1980s and 1990s, the adoption of bar-code scanners and other technologies, along with the replacement of many mom-and-pop stores by chains, allowed the sector to operate more efficiently.

Upbeat Retailers Ramp Up Hiring Justin Lahart 2011

Known for his extraordinary lacey vessels, based on archetypal Wedgwood pieces, constructed using the additive 3-D digital-printing process known as rapid prototyping, for this show he has used the same process to construct a vessel whose exterior form is derived from ancient Chinese bronze vessels but whose footprint is a QR-code, or bar-code.

Combining Craft with Digital Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

What sets it apart: Use the app's bar-code scanning feature in your own kitchen or at the grocery store to recognize more than 200,000 food items.

Software for Shaping Up Molly Baker 2011

Last year, the company launched an iPad application and bought RedLaser, which makes a bar-code scanning tool that lets users compare prices for a product on a store shelf with those online.

EBay CEO Continues To Seek Acquisitions Max Colchester 2011

What sets it apart: If manually entering your food intake burns too many calories, this app comes with a bar-code scanner feature.

Software for Shaping Up Molly Baker 2011

Using data from the ACNielsen HomeScan database, which employed bar-code scanners to track every purchase made by roughly 33,000 U.S. households in 2005, the two economists compared identical products sold in cities big and small, both at high-end grocery stores and discount retailers.

Food Cheaper in City—No Baloney Aaron Rutkoff 2011

We get the point, he's a nice guy and he knows what the little bar-code reader at the supermarket does.

Obama and daughters visit frozen custard shop 2009

Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: ncbrickhome, no doubt in my mind Arn. February 16th, 2010 at 9: 29 pm bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says: drhunt must be mixing up IP or Internet Protocol with ISBN or International Standard Book Number (which is the way they bar-code books these days).

Think Progress » Beck loses 103 sponsors as his UK television broadcast runs for five days straight without any ads. 2010

EBay has made a series of smaller acquisitions over the past year, including bar-code scanner RedLaser and Milo, which helps users find nearby stores that have a particular product in stock.

EBay Pushes Into Amazon Turf Scott Morrison 2011

"It's worked real well for us," said Alex Johns, a resource director for the Seminole tribe of Florida, which has used bar-code ID tags for several years under a USDA pilot program.

In a Beef Over Branding Stephanie Simon 2011