A Survey of the Past, Present, and Expected Future Data Capture Methods Used in the Retail Industry For Taking Periodic Inventories
Abstract
Automated data capture technology has existed since the early 1960's. The banking and supermarket industries have enjoyed success with magnetic ink character recognition and barcode. Department and specialty store chains were surveyed to determine their past, present, and expected future methods of capturing data for periodic inventories. It was also designed to develop profiles of department and specialty stores with regard to three inventory-related characteristics: data recorded and processed, merchandise ticket types, and point-of-sale (POS) systems. This paper reports on the implementation and results of the survey.
Description
Program year: 1984/1985Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
automated data captureDepartment stores
specialty stores
periodic inventories
data recorded and processed
merchandise ticket types
point-of-sale systems
Citation
Billings, Herb III (1985). A Survey of the Past, Present, and Expected Future Data Capture Methods Used in the Retail Industry For Taking Periodic Inventories. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -DeShazoJ _1995.