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Limits RegistryOn 26 June 1974 a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the UPC on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum with a scanner from Photographic Sciences Corporation — the first retail barcode scan. The pack is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; GS1 barcodes are today scanned billions of times a day.
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On 26 June 1974 a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the UPC on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum with a scanner from Photographic Sciences Corporation — the first retail barcode scan. The pack is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; GS1 barcodes are today scanned billions of times a day.
The year a product was first sold by scanning its UPC barcode at a supermarket checkout.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-UPC-BARCODE-RETAIL-SCAN. First retail scan of a UPC barcode. 2026.