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Original Title: TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.