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RAIN Alliance accepted as ISO/IEC JTC 5 liaison on Digital Product Passport standards

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 bakery at 1,500 stores today, 2,300+ by 2029, with sales lifted

Kroger investor deck: RFID in bakery at 1,500 stores today, 2,300+ by 2029, with sales lifted

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…

RFID Printing and Encoding: How Tags Are Made at Scale

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

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

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 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

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…

CMA proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC to HCE in the UK

CMA proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC to HCE in the UK

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…

Nedap revenue up 7% with growth in key markets of 9% in the third quarter of 2026

Nedap revenue up 7% with growth in key markets of 9% in the third quarter of 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…

Post-Implementation Review: Measuring What Your RFID System Actually Delivered

Post-Implementation Review: Measuring What Your RFID System Actually Delivered

Six to twelve months after go-live, most RFID systems have never been formally checked against the business case that justified them. Project teams move on, governance dissolves and underperformance goes…