Three items sold at Target, ranging from electronics to frozen food, were part of nationwide recalls this month.

There’s an old joke about how those laser scanners in the grocery store have dramatically changed the checkout-line experience. In the old days, the clerk would pick up each item, look at it, announce ...

Avalara, the maker of sales tax automation technology is getting even bigger. The Bainbridge Island company today is announcing that it has purchased UPC Matrix Master, descbied as the the world’s ...

The universal product code, or UPC, is a bar code that typically has 12 digits and is usually found on the back or bottom of perishable and non-perishable products. To claim a refund for a defective ...

What's black and white and read all over? Bar codes that can tell us who manufactured a product and where it's been — except when it comes to the financial services industry. Here, financial firms and ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...

The notice follows a series of related shrimp recalls due to potential contamination with a radioactive substance.

WENDELL, N.C. -- George J. Laurer, the man who invented the Universal Product Code (UPC) and called Wendell his home died Thursday. He was 94. The groundbreaking electrical engineer worked at IBM for ...

Every purchase evokes his design of the rectangular Universal Product Code. But although it became ubiquitous, he received no royalties. By Sam Roberts George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically ...

PepsiCo has initiated a voluntary recall for more than 230 cases of sugar- and caffeine-free Schweppes Ginger Ale for containing “full sugar" and being unsafe to drink. The corporation behind some of ...