date:Jun 25, 2013
on perishables by the start of 2014. Retailers have already largely begun scanning the DataBar on coupons over the past year.
GS1 US has designed different versions of the DataBar as alternatives to the UPC. The stacked omnidirectional version of the DataBar, which contains the 14-digit global trade-item number (GTIN) that identifies the supplier and product, is small enough to be implemented on loose produce. It has a 2014 sunrise data for full implementation, said James Chronowski, global s