Chapter 28. Global Trade Item Number
The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) actually refers to a family of barcodes on retail packaging. For North American companies, the UPC is the most common member of the GTIN. Attempts at machine-readable package codes started in the grocery business. This is quite logical; a grocery store has a low profit margin and a fast inventory turnover. Anything that saves manual labor shows up on the bottom line immediately.
Modern barcode technology began with a graduate student research project in 1948 at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But it did not catch on for years. The National Association of Food Chains (NAFC) put out a call for technology to speed the checkout process. In 1967 RCA ...
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