On June 26, 1974, a Universal Product Code, now known as a UPC (barcode), was used for the first time.
At a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum became the first item to get scanned.
Norman Joseph Woodland invented the first version of a barcode and received a patent for it in 1952. Over a decade later, George Laurer developed a scanner that could read the barcodes in 1969.
By - FZ
