Online retailer Amazon has recently brought out an app for those with Microsoft-powered handsets. This new mobile shopping gadget makes use of a barcode scanner to check retail prices in stores. It is hoped the free barcode scanning app (available from the Windows Phone Marketplace) will increase the popularity of smartphones using the Windows mobile […]
In the United States, ShopSavvy’s barcode scanning app has become very popular, with many retailers rushing to open up their inventory and pricing data to the platform so users can enjoy this mobile shopping tool to the full. Now that ShopSavvy has amassed more than 10 million users, the company has decided to relax the […]
The pricing and selling of goods has been made much simpler since the introduction of barcode labels just a few decades ago. Most barcodes are printed onto a product at the product’s time of manufacture, but there are also barcode labels available which can be affixed to any product at any point in the product’s […]
Coca-Cola has just put pen to paper in a marketing agreement with ScanLife which will see them print QR codes on all Coca-Cola Classic and Coca-Cola Zero cans in Spain. The QR codes, which work in the same way as barcodes, can be printed onto any type of packaging and can be read by any […]
First there was cash, then cheques, then card payments, but just this week payment methods have taken a step further – the mobile phone. Making payments at a store using a mobile phone would have been cited as science fiction just a few years ago, but it has now been made a reality thanks to […]
Barcodes labels are used worldwide to keep track of stock. Businesses use barcode labels in warehouses, storage depots and also use them to monitor the transfer of goods into and out of both these facilities. By using barcodes as a way to identify goods, a business can track their goods whilst in transit or even […]
With the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend making sure that every petrol head will be firmly glued to their TV screen, it’s sometimes interesting to see what goes on behind the image portrayed on our TV screens. It might come as a bit of a shock that tyre manufacturer Pirelli brings 1800 tyres to every […]
You’ll normally find barcodes printed onto an items packaging, but they don’t have their use restricted to this alone. One of the other places you might see a barcode is in a warehouse. Barcodes can be used in warehouses for the following reasons. Heavy duty floor barcode labels Barcode labels which can be affixed to […]
