The Checkout Coupon Program utilizes the
universal product codes, or bar codes, that appear on the packaging of most consumer goods.
While a variety of sessions will focus on how to run a more cost-efficient business, others will include radio frequency identification (RFID), the newest loss prevention tools and the pending 2005 Sunrise initiative, which requires retailers to remediate systems to process eight- and 13-digit European Article Numbering codes and
Universal Product Codes (UPCs).
By making this move, they will be taking a significant evolutionary step beyond
universal product codes (UPCs), the most common system used today for automatic identification (auto ID).
Grove also discusses present and future developments in the use of scanners and
Universal Product Codes, including the use of the resulting data between stores of a retail chain as well as between central distribution points and corporate headquarters.
* Battelle (www.battelle.org): Developed xerographic machine technology, compact discs,
universal product codes, and "sandwich" coins - the quarters, dimes, dollars, and half-dollars minted after 1965, containing a thin layer of copper between layers of nickel.