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Answer 1

Wallace Flint proposed an automated checkout system in 1932 using punch cards. Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland developed a bull&#039;s-eye style code, patented in 1952, and the first commercial use of barcodes was in 1966.

In 1970 Logicon Inc. created the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC). In 1970 it was used by Monarch Marking in the United States and Plessey Telecommunications in the United Kingdom.

A group of grocery industry trade associations formed the Uniform Grocery Product Code Council which with consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Company defined the predecessor to the Uniform Product Code. In 1973 George J. Laurer developed the Universal Product Code. See Development of the IBM UPC proposal below. The original UPC appears in U.S. patent No. 3832686 to Ilhan Bilgutay. Bilgutay created four bars of varying widths and put them into groups of two. Laurer added space between the bars, thereby creating a symbol that occupies more space than the Bilgutay original.

The first item ever scanned in a retail establishment (Marsh&#039;s supermarket in Troy, Ohio) was at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, and was a 10-pack of Wrigley&#039;s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The entire shopping cart also had barcoded items in it, but the gum was merely the first one picked up by the cashier. This item is currently on display on the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

Answer 2

You seemed to have a little trouble with your question, but Home Depot and some grocery stores now have self checkout where you scan the items and bag them yourself.  The conveyors and scanning machines of course are automated, as well as the machine that keeps telling you what to do next.