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Hi, this Is Bill Sikkens host of User
Friendly

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2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.

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we're going to be seeing a big change
in the way we shop, and it's not something

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that you might think for over five decades
when you go to the grocery store

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or really any store,
there's a barcode on your item

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and you can either self check it

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or the checker can take it for you,
but they scan it.

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Basically, that process is the same.

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It ends up bringing up what you're buying.

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Well, that barcode is being retired.

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Your groceries
are not going to stop scanning.

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But what's happening
is, is we are changing into a new format.

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So the UPC barcode was introduced
in the early 1970s, and the first time

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it was scanned
was in 1974 for a pack of gum.

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And ever since then, that beeping
has just been a part of shopping

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the 2D barcode,
which is what we think of as the UPC

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code,
as being retired in favor of a new format

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that's going to use something
that looks like a QR code.

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Join us this week on User Friendly 2.0.

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We deep dive into this and tell us what's
going to be happening when you shop.