Romans’ enormous population and growing commerce requirements resulted in much needed storage innovations. They preferred to store their goods:

Greek orator Aelius Aristides described Rome as “the earth’s warehouse.” The city needed to store a massive amount of produce and possessed close to ___ warehouses of various sizes.

Rome’s large warehouses, or horrea, were located in port cities and military camps. The Horrea Galbae complex contained 140 rooms on the ground floor alone and spanned an area of:

“The grandfather of skyscrapers,” the Ditherington Flax Mill in the UK is the oldest iron-framed building in the world. Not long after it was built in ____, warehouses started using its brick and iron-framed structural material.

As warehouses grew in scale, the need for improved workflows and management arose. The first scientific management theory for governing warehouse operations was called:

When the barcode was finally rolled out to commercial use in 1974, what was the first product swiped at the first grocery store to use the UPC system?