Happy Birthday, Bar Code
From The Wall Street Journal story Happy Birthday, Bar Code! See video below.
In a era where technology becomes obsolete in the span of a presidential cycle, the bar code, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, has managed to not only remain ubiquitous, but actually still has a future. Bob Carpenter, president and CEO of GS1 U.S., the firm behind the bar code, stopped by the MoneyBeat set to talk about this grocery store staple and its online future.