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UPC - The History of the UPC and Item Identification

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There have been times when things come along that really impact our lives. One of the more subtle ones in the past half century is the ability for machines to be able to identify products being sold or in inventory. Although the total effort showed signs of coming about in people's minds almost a century ago with the first creation of a barcode, the concentrated effort occurred in the 1970s and particularly in the early 1970s with the organization of a Committee of Grocery Retailers and Grocery Manufacturers known as the Ad Hoc Committee. This was not a legislated effort. This success came about through the cooperation and agreement among the participants. No government intervention or even government nudging occurred.

This project saved consumers billions of dollars, empowered new industries, focused older industries such as advertising and promotion, through over five billion uses per day. Retailers in food, general merchandise and manufacturers know their markets in more detail and better than ever thought possible.

In just two or three years...

Grocery store shopping changed from stores resembling this prior to 1973	Into Scanning stores with much lower checkout profiles by 1976 that looked like this:

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