For those of us familiar with verifying 1D barcodes like UPC and Code 128, migrating into 2D symbols like QR Code or Data Matrix seems very complicated. Why is that? With 1D barcodes it was a [...]
My mother always admonished my siblings and me that people would listen and learn more from a positive message than from a negative one. I hope she will forgive me for taking several years before [...]
May the barcode industry rest in peace. Last week at the National Retail Federation trade show in New York City, a bunch of us “first generation” (AKA old) barcode industry types ran into each [...]
In 2009 the global consulting and technology organization Accenture recognized risk management as moving beyond compliance. In 2011 they saw risk management as a source of competitive advantage. [...]
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis was initiated by the Gartner Group a few years ago. I believe I am the first to apply TCO thinking to barcode verifiers, and it is a very important and [...]
This is a topic that has come up before and here it is again. Why? Because it is an important message. People believe what they want to believe and it gets them into all sorts of avoidable [...]
Different brands of verifiers format the verification report differently but the same basic information is presented. The most significant difference would be if the verifier you are using is not [...]
As the saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat; yes, most problems offer multiple solutions. That is certainly true of controlling the risk and liability—financial and otherwise—of [...]
QR Code quality is paramount as it becomes an important marketing tool in every conceivable market and industry. As we have observed in the retail space, barcode performance at checkout is a [...]
The Black Friday shopping numbers are just starting to come in—was it another down year for consumer holiday spending like last year? These numbers are an insight into consumer confidence and the [...]
