Bar code scanning has become the de facto system used in retail, as well as many other industries, due to its accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness. Moreover, it is an approach that provides ...

Sept. 27, 2002 — There are some people who believe that they won’t see RFID labels being used to track individual items in stores in their lifetime. In fact, the first testing of such a system could ...

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, ...

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...