During my broke college days, I worked as a grocery checker. Surprisingly, it was a job I really enjoyed—I got to talk to all kinds of people and marvel at the weird things they bought. (Like the guy ...

ISBNs, PINs, bar codes, EANs, card and reference numbers - most objects or services available to us have a numeric sequence attached to them. Even the humble piece of fruit gets branded with a number.

You may have collected them or stuck them onto your desk when you were at school, but odds are you've never really thought about why there are stickers on fruit. And even if you have noticed them, ...

They aren't just for the benefit of the sales cashier THE odds are you have never thought about it before, but there’s a reason the stickers on fruit and veg have numbers on them. As well as having a ...

When most of us eat fruit, we just peel the sticker off and don’t think twice about it. It’s just a natural part of consuming Mother Nature’s goodies. But how many of us knew these stickers were ...