Folk Figure. He will be best remembered for initiating the usage of the electronic bar code system, which has affected the purchases of roughly tens of billions of products worldwide since its introduction during the mid-1970s. The native of New England received his bachelor's degree in American History and Literature from Harvard University in 1941 and earned his MBA two years later. After a stint as a stock analyst on Wall Street, Haberman went to work for Long Island's Hills Supermarket chain, serving as vice president. Following Hills' merger with Korvette discount retailer during the mid-1960s, he advanced to president. In 1973, a committee which Haberman chaired was appointed to select a symbol to encode product data electronically, in an effort to speed up the process of grocery checkouts, and improve inventory control and customer service. Haberman would prefer the arrangement of black-and-white vertical bars, brought into existence by I.B.M.'s George J. Laurer, initially introduced by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver during the 1940s. The committee voted in favor of the I.B.M. bar code, and in April 1973 it was instituted.
Folk Figure. He will be best remembered for initiating the usage of the electronic bar code system, which has affected the purchases of roughly tens of billions of products worldwide since its introduction during the mid-1970s. The native of New England received his bachelor's degree in American History and Literature from Harvard University in 1941 and earned his MBA two years later. After a stint as a stock analyst on Wall Street, Haberman went to work for Long Island's Hills Supermarket chain, serving as vice president. Following Hills' merger with Korvette discount retailer during the mid-1960s, he advanced to president. In 1973, a committee which Haberman chaired was appointed to select a symbol to encode product data electronically, in an effort to speed up the process of grocery checkouts, and improve inventory control and customer service. Haberman would prefer the arrangement of black-and-white vertical bars, brought into existence by I.B.M.'s George J. Laurer, initially introduced by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver during the 1940s. The committee voted in favor of the I.B.M. bar code, and in April 1973 it was instituted.
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