The Supermarket Scanner Changed the Way We Buy Groceries Forever: Invented 50 years ago, the curious box deciphered an arcane kind of code to offer shoppers a trip into the future.
The article discusses the invention of the supermarket scanner, which revolutionized the way we buy groceries. In 1974, a cashier named Sharon Buchanan used a new gadget to scan a symbol on a pack of chewing gum, eliminating the need to manually enter prices. This new technology, known as the Spectr...
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Smithsonian Magazine
Jun2024
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