George J. Laurer has died at the age of 94.
Laurer was a former IBM engineer. His invention of the Universal
Product Code at IBM transformed retail and other industries around the
world.
A funeral was held on Monday for Laurer, who died Thursday, December 5, at his home in Wendell, North Carolina.
Laurer was an electrical engineer with IBM in North Carolina’s
Research Triangle Park in the early 1970s when he spearheaded the
development of the UPC, or bar code.
The now-ubiquitous marking, composed of unique black bars and a
12-digit number, allowed retailers to identify products and their prices
as they are scanned, usually at checkout.
Laurer said in a 2010 interview that grocery stores in the 1970s were
dealing with soaring costs and the labor-intensive requirements of
putting price tags on all of their products. The bar code led to fewer
pricing errors and allowed retailers to keep better account of their
inventory.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
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Former IBM engineer George Laurer, who invented the supermarket bar code, dies at 94
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