Barcodes
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Barcodes, every show
Evans: Barcode adoption grew US supermarket SKUs fivefold over a decade
“And there's this massive inflection point in the mid seventies when they deployed barcodes and the number of screws goes up by about five X over the next decade.”
Latka: High-volume apparel makers are shifting from barcodes to active fabric tags
“There's a lot of companies I speak to that do volume at a large scale. I'm talking hundreds of millions of units that are moving essentially from barcodes to some sort of active transmission system built into the tagged fabric.”