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Robert Pini, News Editor

Twenty-five years ago this month, an era was born - one of sweeping changes in retailing and business management as scanning morphed from a shopping convenience to a key link in business supply chain management. For all the fanfare and wonder of the first grocery store scan in the US, no one could have foreseen how this laser-based device would reshape modern life. Slowly, the skepticism vanished. Cashiers welcomed the ease and found it hard to go back to work at a store without scanners. Customers (slowly) began to trust them to check out accurately. They preferred the itemized...Read full article

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