BARCODES in supermarkets could soon become a thing of the past as stores begin trialling a new generation of QR codes on ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

Tesco started trialling QR codes last year, with customers given recipes and storage instructions when they scan products ...

A major change is coming to supermarket checkouts soon.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The checkout has changed over the years. First, cashiers manually punched in the price of an item, then the scanners made check-out much quicker, and today, there's self-check-out.

QR code, short for Quick Response Code, is a kind of matrix barcode that includes information about a product or service. You can find it being used for advertising purposes, where brands put up ...