Retail Chronicles Issue 4 (1 to 15 October)
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06<br />
1962<br />
Big Box retail: The first Wal-Mart opens,<br />
followed by Kmart and target, who follow suit<br />
and open their door's during the 1960's<br />
1974<br />
Bar codes: Inven<strong>to</strong>ry tracking<br />
methods vastly improve. Bar<br />
coding is developed in the<br />
1960’s and the very first scan<br />
of a UPC barcode was on a pack<br />
of Wrigley Company chewing<br />
gum in 1974.<br />
1985<br />
Infomercials emerge: TV and shopping come<br />
<strong>to</strong>gether the very first season of the Home<br />
Shopping Network.<br />
1994<br />
Online shopping is born! Pizza Hut is the<br />
first <strong>to</strong> accept an online order-mushroom,<br />
pepperoni with extra cheese.
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