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Clyde Dawson picked a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit for the first UPC barcode scan in 1974 because nobody was sure a barcode could be printed on something that small, and Sharon Buchanan scanned it at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
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Clyde Dawson picked a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit for the first UPC barcode scan in 1974 because nobody was sure a barcode could be printed on something that small, and Sharon Buchanan scanned it at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
Dawson later explained he chose Juicy Fruit gum for the first UPC scan in Troy, Ohio, on 26 June 1974 as nobody was sure a bar code could fit so small a pack.
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