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Tags, readers and deployments in the 860 to 960 MHz band, where most retail, logistics and industrial RFID operates. Includes RAIN RFID implementations, hardware launches and performance benchmarks.

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 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…

The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next

The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next

Walmart's item-level RFID programme now covers essentially all general merchandise, with compliance enforced through chargebacks in 2026. What the mandate actually requires, from ARC-approved inlays to GS1 serialisation, who is…

Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels

Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels

Timber window and door frame manufacturer Van de Vin has replaced paper drawings on its factory floor with UHF RFID tags embedded in the frames themselves, in a deployment built…

RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?

RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?

Passive UHF inlays that cost 20 to 30 cents a few years ago now sell for 5 to 8 cents, and entry-level fixed readers have dropped under $500. Add cloud…

Akıncı toll gates go barrier-free naming the next eight stations

Akıncı toll gates go barrier-free naming the next eight stations

Free flow tolling went live at Turkey's Akıncı toll station near Ankara on 24 August 2026, the fifth conversion of the year and the 35th of the 106 stations KGM…

Renegade Materials automates out-of-freezer tracking for aerospace prepreg with RFID

Renegade Materials automates out-of-freezer tracking for aerospace prepreg with RFID

Aerospace composites manufacturer Renegade Materials has automated its out-of-freezer records with RAIN RFID from Xemelgo, using Impinj R700 and Speedway R420 portal readers plus Zebra encoding and handheld kit. Xemelgo…

Sainsbury’s deploys RFID to Tu in 400 stores

Sainsbury’s deploys RFID to Tu in 400 stores

Tu clothing is getting RFID in 400 Sainsbury's stores, with full implementation reported for early next month after a successful pilot. Clothing MD Ben Smith says the technology lets the…

Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment

Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment

One site on UHF Gen 2, another on a legacy HF system nobody wants to touch: inconsistency is what kills multi-site RFID rollouts. Why locking down tag specifications, encoding formats…

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…

Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID

Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID

A two-second portal read at the packing station cut chargebacks by 98 per cent for Southern Fried Cotton, a small apparel brand with no dedicated IT department. Item-level EPC encoding…

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