Today, millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Barcode Standards. GS1, the not-for-profit organization behind global barcode standards, has a bold goal designed to help ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. Barcodes have been a staple of commerce since the first UPC barcode was ...

The shift from 1D to 2D barcodes is making packaging smarter, more connected and ready for GS1 Sunrise 2027.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GearChain has launched a free Bulk GS1 Digital Link and Barcode Label Printer that streamlines how businesses create and print barcode labels at scale.

GS1 Digital Link has been hitting the headlines in recent months. Although not new, the standard has been updated for web-enabling barcodes to enhance the shopping experience for consumers around the ...

Supply-chain standards organization GS1 US has released a Barcode Capabilities Test Kit to help retailers gauge their readiness to shift from linear Universal Product Codes (UPCs) to data-rich 2D ...

Retailers already trialling next-generation codes that can show sell-by dates, product instructions and ingredients It is the zebra-striped tag that has become ubiquitous over the last 50 years, but ...

Fifty years ago, a few printed lines opened a world of possibility. The humble barcode, the product-identifying stamp used by supermarkets, warehouses, and healthcare services worldwide, in June ...

GS1 Healthcare celebrates 20 years advancing healthcare digitalisation with a series of events throughout the year The GS1 DataMatrix barcode is recommended or mandated in healthcare regulations ...

More barcodes are scanned each day than searches on Google. But they won’t be around for much longer, here’s what’s coming next. Ten billion barcodes are scanned every day across the world. And since ...