RAIN Alliance Reports 42.7 Billion Tag Chip Shipments in 2025
The RAIN Alliance has released its latest market data, revealing that 42.7 billion RAIN UHF RFID tag chips were shipped globally in 2025. While the figure represents a dip from…
Case Study: How Decathlon Tags 600 Million Products a Year with RFID
When Decathlon first began experimenting with RFID back in 2008, the French sporting goods giant had a straightforward problem. Products were going missing, stocktakes were painfully slow, and customers were…
Checkpoint Systems Announces ItemOptix 2.0 with Enhanced Retail Intelligence Capabilities
Checkpoint Systems has launched Version 2.0 of ItemOptix, its RFID-powered retail intelligence platform, marking a significant step forward from basic inventory visibility toward actionable business insights across the entire retail…
RAIN Alliance Elects Five Industry Leaders to Board of Directors
The RAIN Alliance has announced the election of five new members to its Board of Directors, each bringing deep expertise from across the UHF RFID value chain. The newly elected…
Party Fiesta Enters Retail 4.0 with Full RFID Ecosystem at Barcelona Flagship
Party Fiesta, Europe’s largest party and fancy dress retail chain, has taken a major step into what the industry is calling Retail 4.0 by deploying a full RFID ecosystem at…
Avery Dennison Announces First-to-Market Integration of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s Flexible NFC Chip at Mass Scale
Avery Dennison has announced what it describes as the first-to-market mass-scale integration of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s flexible NFC chip technology. The partnership brings together Avery Dennison’s RFID and NFC inlay manufacturing…
Amazons Enhanced RFID lanes deploy in hours at events
Amazon has unveiled its next-generation portable RFID checkout lanes, engineered to deploy in hours rather than weeks. The updated Just Walk Out technology targets pop-up shops, festivals, sporting venues and…
SML’s InfuseRFID Wins 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award
SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded RFID technology has been recognised with the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award, a notable achievement that validates the growing role of embedded UHF RFID in sustainable…
RFID Retail Expert Anna Marie Blackburn Joins Nedap Retail
Anna Marie Blackburn has joined Nedap Retail as Customer Success Manager, bringing with her a wealth of hands-on RFID experience gained on the retailer side of the industry. Blackburn moves…
JD Sports Teams up wth Checkpoint to Transform Inventory Accuracy and Shelf Availability
JD Sports Fashion has signed a multi-year global software agreement with Checkpoint Systems, selecting the ItemOptix RFID Inventory Management platform to roll out across its Sports Fashion Group stores, beginning…
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