BBC News-"There are now more than five million individual barcodes in use around the world, according to regulator GS1 UK."
Electronicsforu: Barcode systems result in faster and accurate data-capturing, lower costs, minimal mistakes and easier inventory-management
IBN Live-Norman Woodland, co-inventor of the bar code, the inventory tracking tool that transformed global commerce in the 1970s and saved shoppers countless hours on the supermarket checkout line, has died, his daughter said.
