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The weekly digest · 29 October 2026
This week in RFID
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Garment Tags · 27 October 2026
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 he does not think tag prices can keep falling at historical rates.
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Company & Financial · 26 October 2026
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. No technology partner has ever been named, and no sales uplift has been attributed to the system.
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Case Studies · 28 October 2026
Kroger has RFID in the bakery department of roughly 1,500 stores as of October 2026 and wants it in more than 2,300 stores by 2029. Bakery is reporting around 50 per cent lower waste costs and 70 per cent faster counts. No tag vendor or frequency band has been named.
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Contactless Payment · 24 October 2026
The UK regulator wants Apple to open the iPhone NFC controller to Host Card Emulation, not just Secure Element, with the choice sitting with the developer. Two years after Apple opened its SE-only route, no NFC app has launched in the UK using it. Consultation responses close 17 November 2026.
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Uncategorised · 27 October 2026
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 labels, the production process explains why a proportion of cheap tags arrive unreadable and what to ask a supplier about quality control.
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Access Control · 23 October 2026
Nedap's third quarter 2026 revenue reached EUR 76.0 million, up 7 per cent on a year earlier, with retail among the strongest contributors. The retail RFID business added first time adopters and won customers from rival providers, took RFID-enabled self-checkout into its first large-scale deployments, and began a rollout across more than 1,500 VF Corporation stores.
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