The first product purchased with a barcode was a 10 pack of Juicy Fruit gum, scanned on June 26, 1974 at Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The code scanned that day was UPC-A, the same barcode used ...

While the world has changed a lot since the mid-1970s, the Universal Product Code (UPC) – what most people think of when they hear the word “barcode” – hasn’t. The code first scanned on ...

The barcode you see on most retail products in the U.S. and Canada is known as a UPC-A, for universal product code, and the number comprises 12 digits. According to Geeky Camel, the first digit ...