Wal-Mart was an early adopter of POS . The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that bar code scanners at checkout increased ringing speed by 30 % and reduced labor requirements of cashiers and baggers by 10-15 %.
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To reduce errors, Amazon wrote new software to take better advantage of the gizmo that each warehouse worker was already carrying _ a shoehorn-size device that combines a bar code scanner, a display screen and a two-way data transmitter.
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The new CEO, L . Michael Hone, is former chairman and chief executive of PSC Inc ., a Rochester, N . Y ., manufacturer of hand-held bar code scanners that are commonly used by retail stores, factories and utility meter readers.
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The system, made by Productivity Solutions of Jacksonville, has at least one other safeguard against theft . The bar code scanner turns off after each item is recorded and doesn't switch on again until the item rolls through the laser scanner.
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Many modern set ups have the keyboard above the conveyor ( right above the bar code scanner ) and therefore the cashier isn't leaning sideways over the belt anyway . ( talk ) 00 : 37, 10 March 2012 ( UTC)
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At the check-out cashiers, the store's bar code scanners bleeped remorselessly throughout the service, even as the archbishop was heard to say, " God's love for all of us is not shut up in a separate box marked ` Religion '.
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In the last few years, patents have been awarded for keyboards with integral bar code scanners, interface cards for connecting scanners to palm top computers, and scanners that permit personal computer users to read bar codes and then jump to a Web site.
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BTW . . . I was fooling around with my bar code scanner and looking at my new LCD screen on my other computer when it occured to me how neat it would be if my scanner could read bar codes right off the screen.
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But AT & AMP; T GIS remains a big company that sells a wide variety of computer-related services and products-- everything from laptop computers, automatic teller machines, grocery store bar code scanners to massively parallel processing machines that crunch whole gigabytes of data in seconds.
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But AT & T GIS remains a big company that sells a wide variety of computer-related services and products _ everything from laptop computers, automatic teller machines, grocery store bar code scanners to massively parallel processing machines that crunch whole gigabytes of data in seconds.
