A study of supermarket price scanners in Massachusetts revealed that nearly half the devices failed to work properly and that 85% of stores had failed to meet state requirements guaranteeing price ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Toshiba, a Japanese electronics company, has developed a way to end the torment of "Price check, register four!" The brand most known for its laptop and computer manufacturing has ...

MODESTO, Calif. — Save Mart Supermarkets here is installing the Magellan bi-optic 8500Xt scanner/scale in the POS lanes of the 128 stores it acquired in 2007 from Albertsons LLC in Northern California ...

Millions of shoppers could see a familiar supermarket routine change, making weekly trips feel very different 🛒 Traditional barcodes could be replaced by new QR-style codes in UK supermarkets Tesco ...

Native Houstonian Alfred P. Hildebrand, a pioneer in the high-tech world of Silicon Valley who played the key role in the development of the supermarket scanner, died of cancer at his home in Palo ...

WASHINGTON — One last time, for the record: It was not an ordinary supermarket scanner. A February 1992 newspaper story reporting that President George H.W. Bush was baffled by a supermarket bar-code ...

With worldwide cardiovascular deaths at an all-time high, European scientists have developed a new handheld scanner that can read your heart's vital signs like a supermarket barcode reader can scan ...

Tesco is making a major change for shoppers and trialling in-store avocado scanners to determine ripeness. The device will be installed in a Warwickshire supermarket, one of just five across the ...