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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 289 – ShipBob Co-Founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena

Retail Geek

And be Engineers we were able to automate effectively everything in that e-commerce business except the part around shipping and Logistics. 2:58] And we would call up a bunch of these existing companies 3pls who helped companies with the shipping and Logistics take all three pills third party Logistics providers.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 292 – Q1 2022 Recap (Live)

Retail Geek

lifestyle so next line so started spiffy in 2014 and today we’re in 27 locations about a 50 million run rate doubling, we have 250 Vans across the United States and about 500 technicians so that’s a little bit of background on me. And this is where we. Jason: [11:03] We got on like The Today Show.