{"id":6617,"date":"2014-07-28T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2014-07-28T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:15:30","slug":"week-bahrns-blog-july-2014-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/week-bahrns-blog-july-2014-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on the Bahrns Blog July 2014 Week 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a special sneak preview of some of what you will find this week on the Bahrns blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you believe that the bar code is turning 40 this year? To celebrate, we&#8217;ll look back at the fascinating history of that little squiggly box that has been on packages and products since 1974.<\/li>\n<li>The fees to ship cargo containers across the Pacific is going up &#8230; but that can actually be good news because it may mean a West Coast strike by longshoreman is unlikely.<\/li>\n<li>Economists are taking a &#8220;glass half full&#8221; approach to recent economic reports that say retail sales growth remains flat. They remain optimistic that things are going to improve in the very near future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, an intermodal expo in Long Beach, a growth in third-party logistics, the merger of two supply chain management software companies, and this week&#8217;s fascinatingly dangerous Video of the Week! All that and much, much more can be found this week on the Bahrns blog, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a special sneak preview of some of what you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: Would you believe that the bar code is turning 40 this year? To celebrate, we&#8217;ll look back at the fascinating history of that little squiggly box that has been on packages and products since 1974. The fees &#8230; <a title=\"This Week on the Bahrns Blog July 2014 Week 5!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/week-bahrns-blog-july-2014-week-5\/\" aria-label=\"More on This Week on the Bahrns Blog July 2014 Week 5!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}