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There are changes coming to checkout lanes near year: The black-and-white bars you see on just about every product sold are getting a small but noticeable makeover.Shoppers are familiar with the beep, beep you hear as store clerks scan each and every Universal Product Code, or UPC. The statistic that kind of blows my mind every time I see it is that the barcode is scanned 10 billion times a day worldwide, said Carrie Wilkie, senior vice president of standards and technology at GS1 US, a company known for administering UPC barcodes.Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the first-ever beep. By that we mean the first scan of a barcode 鈥?
stanley tumbler a scanniversary, if you will.It s how we ve shopped for 50 years, something that s just so ingrained in everyday life that we don t think about, Wilkie said.The barcode s historyOn June 26, 1974, a pack of Wrigley s Juicy Fruit chewing gum was scanned at an Ohio supermarket, making it the first official barco
stanley mug de scan, according to GS1. Wilkie said, at the point of sale, the code s primary function is price lookup. That s been the duty that it has served for the last 50 years, she said.Since that first scan, barcode usage has vastly expanded, now used in health care and in the supply chain.What s next for barcodes Wilkie said the industry is now in the midst of a transition from the familiar UPC with numbers
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Ryan Poe and Jenival Santos live nearly 1,200 miles apart but they are facing similar struggles.Their livelihoods rely on wheat.Poe grows it on his Washington State farm and Jenival uses it in almost everything o
botella stanley n his menu at City Bakery Cafe in Denver.Wheat prices have gone up since Russias Invasion of Ukraine. The countries are two major global wheat producers. Selling crops at a higher price can be good news for farmers, but Poe says whats different today is how much his expenses, like the cost of fertilizer and the fuel, have increased.The diesel fuel that goes into one 10,000-gallon tank on his farm costs more than $4.00 a gallon. Then you look back to a year ago, paying $2, so essentially its almost $20,000 more to fill th
stanley tumbler is tank today versus a year ago, Poe said.Not only are costs impacting how crops are gr
stanley cup own, but also how they re sent down the supply chain.In the first two weeks of March, as the War in Ukraine was just beginning, diesel prices soared. The USDA says the cost of transporting grain by truck rose more than 20% between March 2 and March 16.At Santos cafe, the costs from a strained supply chain are rolled into ingredients like his bread. We used to pay $13 to $14 for a bag of flour, he said. Now, we pay for a bag of flour鈥?$23-$24 a bag. Santos raised his menu prices only once during the pandemic. He feared raising the prices more would drive people away.Business at both ends of the supply chain can be unforgiving. If youre looking at a loaf of bread a
