Giant Eagle Using Seegrid Robots Profiled in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
James Knox of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review profiled how grocery leader Giant Eagle is using Seegrid Robotic Industrial Trucks. A national grocery organization that included H.J. Heinz Co., Del Monte, Procter & Gamble Co. and General Mills Inc. adopted the black-and-white Universal Product Code in 1973, forming the first push for a standard way to distinguish crates of canned peas from oatmeal. The first UPC-coded item scanned was a pack of chewing gum on June 26, 1973, in Troy, Ohio.
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