Which inventor is credited with creating the first Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode system that revolutionized retail inventory and checkout processes?

Test your knowledge about revolutionary product innovations that transformed the retail landscape! This trivia focuses on a groundbreaking technology that fundamentally changed how we shop and how products are tracked in the retail industry. Understanding this innovation reveals how a simple concept evolved into one of retail's most essential technologies used in billions of products worldwide.

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Norman Joseph Woodland, who drew the first barcode in sand on Miami Beach in 1949 before patenting the concept in 1952
George Laurer, an IBM engineer who designed the rectangular UPC symbol but didn't invent the original barcode concept
David Collins, who created a colored barcode system for railroad car tracking but not the retail UPC system
Alan Haberman, who chaired the committee that selected the UPC standard but wasn't its inventor