HOLTSVILLE – In a showdown featuring a superpower, a Middle Eastern despot, a fractured world community and the smartest, most lethal arsenal in history, bar codes don’t get a lot of attention. But ...

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Forty years ago, a group of American grocery executives got together and decided to upend the global economy with a series of black lines. Not that they knew at the time just how enmeshed the bar code ...