Editorial | Barcodes in stores get a replacement after 50 years of history

For customers, shopping will probably change a lot in the future, because retail plans to abolish the bar codes or barcodes on the goods that have been proven for over 50 years. What is behind them and what alternatives are coming for us.read more on t3n.de

The familiar barcodes on product packaging and beeping at checkouts may be history in a few years, as new 2D codes are replacing them. Developed over 50 years ago, the barcode became common in Finnish stores in the 1980s and gradually replaced price tags attached to products.