Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Emek Basker
Published Date
Copyright 2014
CONFERENCE HELD January 20-21, 2012
Book: Standards, Patents and Innovations
Book organizers: Timothy Simcoe, Ajay K. Agrawal & Stuart Graham
PUBLISHER: International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 36
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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
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Barcodes and barcode scanners transformed the grocery industry in the 1970s. I use store-level data from the 1972,...

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