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 ...

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 ...

The first ever product to be scanned was a 10-pack of ... a not-for-profit and authorized source for UPC barcodes, estimates ...

“UPC bar codes offer another way for our users to access information from the products they interact with, and we see thousands of scans every day. “We are also a media driven company ...