Smartphone owners have the world at their fingertips. As grandiose as that may sound, advances in mobile barcode scanning technology have given rise to applications that allow for comparison shopping, QR code place checkins and ultimately a social experience around product barcodes. What this means is that at any given moment, any smartphone owner can pull out their device, fire up a barcode scann
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