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a small grocery store c1946 in Quebec. About a decade later bar codes began up here identifying each product.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. … well, you may know the story. If not, my good friend, George Dunbar, offers this wording from the LAC up in Gateaux, QC (once called Hull), “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) – 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the barcode<\/a>! The first Canadian scan was at a grocery store in Dorval, Quebec in 1974.”. Dorval is a suburb of Montreal and home to its closest airport.<\/p>\n

The photo here, also from the LAC, is a typical Quebec ‘corner’ grocery store back in 1946. Note the casual smoking in the store and the tobacco advertising. As a kid, I remember being sent to just such a store in a small Ontario town for groceries.<\/p>\n

We consider the bar code common place today and regularly see the shop owner or cashier casually scan each item purchased. A computer ‘reads’ the scan and prints the appropriate product name and price. Gone are the days when the owner\/cashier typed in the product \u00a0price to a cash register or wrote the details in a carbon paper receipt book.<\/p>\n

Photographs are the basis for these work place events, now long past (at least in grocery chains and large stores). Every product has a unique bar code and a price as decided by the seller. Collectors of photos often value such work place photos either as part of a collection or the focus of one.<\/p>\n

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Toronto. … well, you may know the story. If not, my good friend, George Dunbar, offers this wording from the LAC up in Gateaux, QC (once called Hull), “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) – 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4542,4543,613,495],"class_list":["post-27953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-achieve","tag-bar-code","tag-photo","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27963,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions\/27963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}