RFID Tagging Strategies: Source Tagging vs In-House Tagging
Shifting tag application upstream to manufacturers cuts per-unit costs sharply, but onboarding suppliers can take months and demands ongoing compliance audits. Keeping tagging in-house buys control at the price of…
RFID Tag Costs: Where Are We in 2026 and Where Are We Heading?
Passive UHF inlays now sell for 4 to 8 cents, and 50-million-unit buyers are negotiating towards 2 cents. Chip die shrinks from Impinj and NXP keep pushing prices down, yet…
RFID Event Processing: CEP Engines and Why Real-Time Matters
Thousands of tag reads per second are worthless as raw data; complex event processing engines turn them into decisions while they still matter. By correlating reads across dock doors and…
Avery Dennison study: 97% of fans want personalised merchandise, but 63% walk away from queues and stockouts
Ninety-seven percent of fans want personalised merchandise at live events and 52% would pay more than $15 for it, yet 63% walk away because of queues and stockouts. Avery Dennison's…
Minnesota Vikings add RFID self-checkout at the U.S. Bank Stadium team store for 2026
The Vikings Locker Room Store at U.S. Bank Stadium gets RFID self-checkout for the 2026 NFL season. Fans put merchandise into a station, the reader identifies every tag at once…
Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’
Animate will fit PubteX's BOOKTRAIL RFID system across every one of its Japanese stores, targeting RFID-based store operations by April 2029. The tags arrive already inside the book, tucked in…
Overhead RFID goes mainstream as GreyOrange passes 3,800 stores with H&M
GreyOrange says more than 3,800 retail locations now run its gStore platform, tracking roughly 200 million items with UHF RFID. H&M Group accounts for hundreds of those stores across three…
Asda completes electronic shelf label rollout across all UK Express stores
Asda has completed electronic shelf labels across all 517 UK Express stores, 1.2 million units for GBP 7.5 million, ending the weekly swap of 120,000 paper tickets. The VusionGroup labels…
What the hard plastic tag on clothes actually does
It has no battery, no serial number and, in almost every case, no ink. Here is what is really inside a clothes security tag, why the pin will not pull…
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia says item-level RFID cut its annual shrink from more than $1.49 million to about $154,000, on a $1.2 million investment it puts…
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