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Next June marks the 30th anniversary of the first time a product -- it happened to be a 10-pack package of Wrigley's chewing gum -- was scanned at a supermarket checkout lane. While bar-code scanning ...

Some supermarkets are taking a few hesitant steps toward scan-based trading of magazines, but many in the industry are starting to question whether the system, in which retailers pay for their ...