... "buy more sophisticated cash registers" and a computer system "dedicated to keeping track of merchandise, sales, and orders. By 1973, the computer system could collect some sales information from terminals at 22 stores. By later standards, the system was crude: the data couldn't be transmitted instantly, but (it) had to be collected and then sent out each night. Still the information helped ... simple especially since employees were already attaching pricing tickets on various items. "When, as we now know, UPC became the industry standard, retailers who"d invested in OCR had to play cat...

• Word Count: 2514
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate