GS1 is a non-profit organization that develops and maintains global standards for business communication, including the widely known UPC barcodes. Now, GS1’s Sunrise 2027 initiative is reshaping how ...

Digital driver’s licenses — now being built in many states — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the likelihood that once they make it very frictionless to share our ID, we are likely ...

Electronic shelf labels, digital screens that display the price of an item, are replacing traditional paper price tags in grocery stores across America. "Digital price tags may enable Kroger and other ...

The best label maker is a boost to your storage and organization efforts, whether that’s sorting a spice rack or slapping your kid’s name on their back-to-school stuff. It makes closets and drawers ...

Labels, particularly when applied to human beings and their behavior, can have a surprisingly polarizing effect, regardless of the label’s efficacy. Some people resist labels altogether, while others ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. Barcodes have been a staple of commerce since the first UPC barcode was ...

If you sell products to your customers, many of the items probably already have UPC barcodes you scan when ringing up sales. However, you can use barcodes on products or items for other purposes as ...

Talk about a hidden value. Walmart shoppers are losing their minds after learning that the store’s budget-friendly Great Value items come equipped with invisible barcodes — a secret hiding in plain ...

How consumers define ‘clean label’ is expanding beyond ‘simple, easy-to-understand ingredients’ to include questions about the safety of some long-used ingredients and processing techniques as well as ...

Sometimes there are hidden patterns in numbers you might not immediately notice. One example of this is in barcodes, the sequences of digits we use to identify products. Try it yourself – find an ...