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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Sectors That Benefit From Barcode Identification

There are various sectors that can benefit from the barcode method of identification. Mass production companies with barcode particular kinds of items can use barcode identification to analyze and identify them from the different products they produce.

This favors them by extremely increasing the quantity of production and moving of their products. The retail industry was greatly improved by the installation of the barcode. It helped to keep track of large number of items kept in stores, and resulted in reduction of shoplifting since shoplifters were not able to interchange price tags between low and high cost products. It also helped in considerable savings in stock taking and records of well-known items.

The use of barcodes also favored the consumer. Consumers now a days consider barcodes for granted, without realizing the amount of savings which are recognized from them using the supply chain. With the savings produced by barcodes, retailers can extremely reduce costs, favoring the consumer significantly.

Using passports with barcodes, has two important beneficiaries. The most important one is at airports and at border control. Border controls need that the traveler shows passports as an evidence of identification and to find where the passport holder has been on current travels. This helps in swift processing of the holder, instead of checking manually on a database, the information is available on the passport, and the code present at the bottom can be scanned to automatically input and find the passport information. With the passports and passport applications, the national government can keep record of immigration and emigration within the country.

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