ISHIDA TELLS OF NEW INNOVATION TO CEMENT ITS STRONG MARKET SHARES IN WEIGHING AND LABELLING
April 1st, 2017
Japanese food labelling and weighing specialist Ishida Co Ltd is eyeing new ways to develop packaging so that products can be sold in shops without their barcodes being scanned. The new technology involves printing readable content on the entire package, allowing any point of it to be scanned to give a price, but using unobtrusive images that do impair the packaging design or visibility of the product.
Demand is expected to be greatest in Japan, where human resources are so scarce, retailers want to dispense with cashiers - unemployment is 2.8% as of February ...
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