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New Digital Bar Code Technology Promises to Speed Up Retail Checkout

courtesy Digimarc

Invisible retail point-of-sale “watermarks” may eventually replace the standard black and white striped barcode at the register. We check out the company behind the technology and check in with the world's largest retailer.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.