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26th June 1974: World’s first barcode scanned on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum
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Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit ...
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