My father, Nanjundiah N. Murthy (give him a lookup on RUclips) worked on this design while VP of Engineering with Pitney Bowes during the late 60's/ early 70's and subsequently, has 3 patents on this system - the first SCANNABLE UPC/ BARCODE. Thanks for making the grocery lines shorter Dad!
@@ashamacdonald1234 It's a shame people cannot be more polite, anyway... Pitney Bowes is still a huge provider of scales and scanners for commercial applications, they also have expanded into doing sorting and warehousing for 3rd parties in recent years directly.
In the 1980s Philippines, whenever we see a barcode, we call it "states side" because it came from the U.S.A. Of course, there was no China at that time, so naturally, those products are of high quality and taste better, and for some reasons are rare to see.
But the number of cash registers would have remained the same (until now stores were built) and at busy times all the cash registers could be used much more efficiently than if it was the old system. Sure when less busy the cashiers would be doing other things in the store (like it is now) and just get called to go to a cash register if it gets more busy, but the maximum capacity when the store was really busy got better!
@@Magnus_Loov That makes sense in theory but some places like Walmart deliberately understaff at all hours and only dust off their dozen other lanes in December, but I realize it's more to do with greed than barcodes themselves.
@@BuIIet And then there's also the self checkout which 99% of the time is taking longer and also is a way to understaff even more, because we are doing their jobs. This became even more common during Covid. That is something I really hate. My local grocery store, which is quite small, introduced this during covid and it was really bad. Only one person doing the oldschool checkout and then even that person going away to do other stuff (close by) when there is no line. There used to be a max of 4 persons servicing you but now there are only a max of 2.The rest is covered with 4 self checkout terminals. It has done more harm than the possible understaffing when the barcodes came into play.
@@Magnus_Loov I think it's inevitable given the alternative is businesses effectively doing charity by employing people for more money than the investment of a self-checkout. The answer can't be for the private sector to throttle productivity and profits to accommodate those people because it's neither in a company's best financial interest, nor enforceable in a capitalist economy. It seems to me like the core problem is low-skilled, disadvantaged, or poorly educated people being unable to compete, and no wonder. I suspect that if our education system wasn't on par to that of a third world country's, the loss of mundane, repetitive, dead-end jobs would be less of an issue. Most cashiers are not happy cashiers, they didn't dream of becoming one when they grew up. Lack of opportunity and desperation made them conform just to survive. I don't think we should fight to keep those garbage jobs that will never afford someone independence or a retirement. Most people can be taught to do something that isn't repetitive and brainless. Those that inherently cannot, we could afford to take care of, if everyone at least had a chance to do their part. Unfortunately, we have not created an environment that fosters this. There's no overnight solution, but serious investments in to our education system should have started happening a long time ago for the sake of our future. We have fifth graders reading at a second grade level. In my city Baltimore, out of 23 public schools, there were *zero* students who tested proficient in math. My initial comment was sort of provoking to start a conversation. I don't blame businesses or entrepreneurs taking advantage of tools to increase productivity. I'm grateful that machinery can harvest my cotton and food as opposed to someone being exploited for a poverty wage, whos probably capable of so much more given the chance to try and succeed. Mortar and brick grocery shopping is also losing market share to online and delivery services. I would not be surprised if for every cashier lost, a food/grocery delivery driver is hired, which is a much more productive service in my opinion than someone bagging groceries for our convenience of awkwardly standing still doing nothing.
prices were on the actual item, and the checkers had to enter the price of each individual item and then put whether it was a produce, frozen, or grocery item.
My best friend worked in a grocery store and had to sometime change the inked price on cans. They would use hair spray and give a little spray on the old price and wipe it off then re-stamp the new price on the can
Thats amazing , here is a coincidense, my daughter asked me to buy her a 5 pack of juicy fruit last week and it had a bar code on it and it was scanned on the scanner at the supermarket, when we opened up the packet we put some in our mouths and it tasted great, very sweet
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My father, Nanjundiah N. Murthy (give him a lookup on RUclips) worked on this design while VP of Engineering with Pitney Bowes during the late 60's/ early 70's and subsequently, has 3 patents on this system - the first SCANNABLE UPC/ BARCODE. Thanks for making the grocery lines shorter Dad!
What do you mean ?
wtf are you saying... also who the hell is Nanjundiah N. Murthy...
@@LucaPed94 He is my father. Find my interview with him on the Houseofhoofyfoot channel to learn for yourself. Or don't...
@@ashamacdonald1234 It's a shame people cannot be more polite, anyway... Pitney Bowes is still a huge provider of scales and scanners for commercial applications, they also have expanded into doing sorting and warehousing for 3rd parties in recent years directly.
@@LucaPed94 Why don’t you find out who he is and try to actually comprehend the information instead of being blissfully fucking ignorant?
That happened on the day I was born! And I work in Retal
FineFare / gateway we’re still using manual registering tills in to the late 80s!
In the 1980s Philippines, whenever we see a barcode, we call it "states side" because it came from the U.S.A. Of course, there was no China at that time, so naturally, those products are of high quality and taste better, and for some reasons are rare to see.
Very cool..... thanks
While we thought barcodes would make grocery lines shorter, retailers realized they could just have less cashiers to offset the difference.
But the number of cash registers would have remained the same (until now stores were built) and at busy times all the cash registers could be used much more efficiently than if it was the old system. Sure when less busy the cashiers would be doing other things in the store (like it is now) and just get called to go to a cash register if it gets more busy, but the maximum capacity when the store was really busy got better!
@@Magnus_Loov That makes sense in theory but some places like Walmart deliberately understaff at all hours and only dust off their dozen other lanes in December, but I realize it's more to do with greed than barcodes themselves.
@@BuIIet And then there's also the self checkout which 99% of the time is taking longer and also is a way to understaff even more, because we are doing their jobs.
This became even more common during Covid.
That is something I really hate.
My local grocery store, which is quite small, introduced this during covid and it was really bad. Only one person doing the oldschool checkout and then even that person going away to do other stuff (close by) when there is no line. There used to be a max of 4 persons servicing you but now there are only a max of 2.The rest is covered with 4 self checkout terminals.
It has done more harm than the possible understaffing when the barcodes came into play.
@@Magnus_Loov I think it's inevitable given the alternative is businesses effectively doing charity by employing people for more money than the investment of a self-checkout. The answer can't be for the private sector to throttle productivity and profits to accommodate those people because it's neither in a company's best financial interest, nor enforceable in a capitalist economy. It seems to me like the core problem is low-skilled, disadvantaged, or poorly educated people being unable to compete, and no wonder. I suspect that if our education system wasn't on par to that of a third world country's, the loss of mundane, repetitive, dead-end jobs would be less of an issue. Most cashiers are not happy cashiers, they didn't dream of becoming one when they grew up. Lack of opportunity and desperation made them conform just to survive. I don't think we should fight to keep those garbage jobs that will never afford someone independence or a retirement. Most people can be taught to do something that isn't repetitive and brainless. Those that inherently cannot, we could afford to take care of, if everyone at least had a chance to do their part. Unfortunately, we have not created an environment that fosters this. There's no overnight solution, but serious investments in to our education system should have started happening a long time ago for the sake of our future. We have fifth graders reading at a second grade level. In my city Baltimore, out of 23 public schools, there were *zero* students who tested proficient in math.
My initial comment was sort of provoking to start a conversation. I don't blame businesses or entrepreneurs taking advantage of tools to increase productivity. I'm grateful that machinery can harvest my cotton and food as opposed to someone being exploited for a poverty wage, whos probably capable of so much more given the chance to try and succeed. Mortar and brick grocery shopping is also losing market share to online and delivery services. I would not be surprised if for every cashier lost, a food/grocery delivery driver is hired, which is a much more productive service in my opinion than someone bagging groceries for our convenience of awkwardly standing still doing nothing.
I was sixteen years old back then!
Cool video
That's it? That's the entire video?
*How did store registers work before scan? Because that's all we have now😭*
You just paid for the items
prices were on the actual item, and the checkers had to enter the price of each individual item and then put whether it was a produce, frozen, or grocery item.
My best friend worked in a grocery store and had to sometime change the inked price on cans. They would use hair spray and give a little spray on the old price and wipe it off then re-stamp the new price on the can
Bloody Mark Of the Beast it is
Not really my friend. That would have to be on your right hand or forehead.
Thats amazing , here is a coincidense, my daughter asked me to buy her a 5 pack of juicy fruit last week and it had a bar code on it and it was scanned on the scanner at the supermarket, when we opened up the packet we put some in our mouths and it tasted great, very sweet
wow
I’m surprised it took
UMMMMMM JUICY FRUIT !!!!
My favourite !
It's the taste that's gonna move you.
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