Who invented the first commercially successful barcode scanner system that revolutionized retail checkout and inventory management in the 1970s?

The retail landscape has been transformed by technological innovations that changed how we shop forever. Behind these groundbreaking retail innovations are visionaries who saw possibilities others didn't. This trivia question tests your knowledge about a pivotal retail invention that fundamentally altered the shopping experience worldwide. Can you identify the correct innovator behind this game-changing retail technology?

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Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver (Original barcode inventors who never successfully commercialized their system)
George Laurer (IBM engineer who designed the UPC barcode system adopted by retailers worldwide)
Alan Haberman (Supermarket executive who led the industry committee but didn't invent the scanner)
David Collins (Created a railway tracking system but not the retail barcode scanner technology)