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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Gerry C. Shih / The Bulletin
June 26, 2009
The design was straightforward — 59 black and white bars. And the inventors’ objectives were simple enough, too — to speed up the grocery checkout line and give supermarkets a new tool to track their stock.
But the bar code has become much more than that since it....
