A 32-year-old man was arrested Sunday, Feb. 2, after allegedly using a ring embedded with a tomato soup barcode to scan ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — A man is accused of using a ring embedded with a tomato soup barcode to scan expensive items at a Walmart in southwestern Idaho, authorities said. According to a news release ...

An ingenious Idaho man used a homemade barcode-inscribed ring at Walmart’s self-checkout to pay the price of a can of soup for pricey goods, according to authorities. Dylan Rockwell, 32 ...

Scanners have gotten cheaper and better, but the barcode is still the barcode is ... sort of like a phone number that would ring up not a person, but cans of Campbell’s chicken-noodle soup.

The soaring popularity of smartphone apps that scan barcodes on food products to provide health scores are empowering consumers and shifting dynamics in the food industry, recent studies suggest.