Categories Categories Food Facts First product with a barcode Post author By thing Post date August 18, 2013 a Cool thing I learned today – Surprisingly enough, the first product to have ever had a barcode printed on it, was a packet of Gum, more specifically Wrigley’s Gum somewhere around 1974. Source: Wikipedia – Barcode system first product to have a barcode Tags 1974, barcode, ever, fact, first, gum, print, product, Wrigley's ← Who loves U.S? → Hummingbirds weigh less than a penny