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British Vets hail launch of centralised pet microchip portal
Easemotion cuts work in process 30% with RFID on its activewear conveyor
SparkLink shows a passive sensing interface and claims it beats RFID: here’s what the claim actually measures
RAIN Alliance accepted as ISO/IEC JTC 5 liaison on Digital Product Passport standards
Kroger investor deck: RFID in 1,500 stores today, 2,300+ by 2029 with sales lifted in bakery pilot
British Vets hail launch of centralised pet microchip portal
Five of the UK's 20-plus pet microchip databases can be searched in one place, free to vet practices, rescues, police and councils. The Association of Microchip Database Operators launched phase…
Easemotion cuts work in process 30% with RFID on its activewear conveyor
Activewear maker Easemotion says RFID on its overhead garment conveyor, tied into its MES, has cut work in process inventory by 30% and shortened order cycles by 25% at its…
SparkLink shows a passive sensing interface and claims it beats RFID: here’s what the claim actually measures
A battery-free temperature sensing tag shown in Shenzhen in October 2026 is claimed to respond 100 times faster than RFID, at 0.3 to 0.4 milliseconds and 3,000 tags a second.…
RAIN Alliance accepted as ISO/IEC JTC 5 liaison on Digital Product Passport standards
RAIN Alliance has been accepted as a liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 5, the DIN-run committee writing international Digital Product Passport standards. Passive UHF RFID is already one of the carrier…
Kroger investor deck: RFID in 1,500 stores today, 2,300+ by 2029 with sales lifted in bakery pilot
Kroger has RFID in roughly 1,500 stores as of October 2026 and wants more than 2,300 by 2029. Its bakery department, tagged across 1,500 stores, is reporting around 50 per…
RFID Printing and Encoding: How Tags Are Made at Scale
Thousands of tags per hour move through a modern RFID label converter, each laminated, printed, encoded and verified before it ships. From wet inlays on a reel to serialised, application-ready…
Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags
SML Group Chief Commercial Officer Gary Moskovciak on what a retailer actually puts in an RFID business case, which number convinces a board, where programmes stall after approval, and why…
US cattle RFID mandate faces court test as ranchers seek to overturn USDA rule
Cross-motions for summary judgment in R-CALF's challenge to the USDA electronic cattle eartag rule are listed for 18 November 2026 in Rapid City. The ranchers' sharpest point comes from the…
Sainsbury’s confirms completed roll-out of clothing RFID across Tu in H1 2026/27 interim results
Sainsbury's has finished installing item-level RFID across Tu clothing departments in around 400 UK stores, but its interim results statement gives the programme a single bullet point and no figures.…
RFID for Asset Tracking: Beyond Inventory to Equipment Management
Large organisations tagging their assets for the first time routinely discover the register is wrong: written-off equipment still in use, phantom entries, duplicates across cost centres. Mature RFID asset management…
