Why Barcodes
Posted by admin on January 16, 2009
Today, the retail industry has evolved to meet the requirements of today’s fast paced world by giving consumers a much faster checkout and pricing process. All of this is possible with the use of the barcode. A barcode is an encoding tag or label that’s placed on all product that allows computers to track and ring up products far faster and more accurately than transactions made by hand. For every two keystrokes made by a human, a barcode can read one whole product’s information. This is approximately 10 times faster than if a person were to enter in the information by hand.
For approximately every 1,000 keystrokes made by a human being, there are an average of 10 errors. With barcodes, for every 10,000 scans made by an optical scanner, there are an average of only 1 error. This should be evidence enough that when it comes to routine calculations you can not beat a computer! In the world of business, we all want to keep our overhead low. Using barcodes can actually reduce the amount of training time required for employees. A scanner is fairly simple to operate, and automatically does the computation for you. Teaching new employees how to use a scanner is very simple and really should only take a matter of minutes. This is much easier than having to sit down with employees and show them the store’s entire inventory and pricing process that they’d have to remember and be accurate each and every time. Another great benefit of barcodes is their cost effectiveness. It really only costs about one penny or so per barcode label. They can easily be printed and added to items in a timely fashion, so that your entire inventory is labeled and tracked immediately.
It is easy to see why barcodes are a much more effective and easy method of tracking inventory and pricing products, whether there are a few, a few hundred, or a few thousand. They offer automatic product identification, extremely fast recognition and implementation of data, a very low error rate, are extremely cost effective, and can assist employers with lowering overhead and cutting down on training time and labor. The modern world demands that companies stay ahead of the competition and keep up the pace when it comes to modern technology in business.
