GS1 Canada

CBC Radio CalgaryRyan Eickmeier is with GS1 Canada, the company that issues licenses for barcodes in Canada. He joins us to talk about the 40th birthday of the barcode. - The bar code: Revolutionary retail staple turns 40Forty years ago Thursday, the purchase of a 67-cent (U.S.) package of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, received what may have seemed like an undue amount of attention.