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Happy Barcode Invention Day
Written by: Nilesh ShahArticle Overview: Let's celebrate the birthday of barcode that is on almost everything. To celebrate google has changed it's home page to feature the barcode on October, 7th.
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Happy Barcode Invention Day
Almost 95% of packed and packaged items purchased from a department or a grocery store carry a barcode on it. This helps a retailer for faster checkouts and tracking inventory placed in-store or warehouse. Both consumers and retailers have benefited from the usage of this technology. Recently, its usage has expanded to scanning electric or telephone bills, movie tickets and providing entries to sports arenas and temples. In large organizations, bar codes are often used to maintain office file system.
A barcode is a computer readable representation of information. Initially, barcodes stored data in the widths and spacing of printed parallel lines, but today they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and text codes. Barcodes can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers or scanner. Barcodes are widely used to implement automatic data capture systems that improve the speed and accuracy of computer data entry.
Some common and widely used barcode symbology
UPC, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, RSS-14, CODABAR, INTERLEAVED, DISCRETE
Revolution carried-out by barcode in retail industry
- Smooth and easy billing process
- Faster Checkouts - Happy Customers :)
- Less time consuming during inventory counts - Happy Staff :)
- Efficient inventory re-ordering - Happy vendors :)
- Faster inventory movement (stock transfers, warehousing)
- Quick information retrieval
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About the Author: Nilesh Shah RSS for Nilesh's articles - Visit Nilesh's website Nilesh Shah nileshshah@rancelab.com Over 10 years of experience in the field of software development, sales and marketing. He has assisted over 500 Retailers and Restaurateurs in implementing the Retail and F&B software with barcode & pos hardware for their business. He holds a designation of Director, Marketing in Rance Computer Pvt Ltd. He holds the certification from Microsoft Corporation and NIS. His current research focuses on developing and implementing intelligent retail systems that shoulders the responsibility of an entrepreneur. With such system, he is helping Retailers and Restauranteurs in focusing more on business expansion than of day-to-day complex operations. Click here to visit FusionRetail Blog. Catch me on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter Click here to visit Nilesh's website How to control Shoplifting Remedies to Shoplifting Why an Integrated Financial Accounts 10 Tips for Sweet Shop Retailers to increase Sales this Diwali Happy Barcode Invention Day How can POS Software Ally in Preventing the Problems of Sales Return Fraud |
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