How to Present RFID to Your Board: A Guide for Champions
A board will not engage with antenna polarisation, but it will engage with 2.4 million pounds of lost sales from phantom out-of-stocks. Winning approval for RFID means quantifying the pain…
When RFID Projects Fail: Five Common Patterns and How to Avoid Them
The hardware almost never causes an RFID project to fail; the business case does. Five patterns account for most failures, starting with plans built around reader counts instead of measurable…
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.…
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…
Lager 157 and ClarityRFID: a Nordic RFID pilot that delivered 98% stock accuracy
Three stores, three countries, one pilot. Lager 157 swapped manual stock counts for item-level RFID in Naestved, Nacka and Raisio between August and October 2025, and came out with 98…
RFID in Fashion and Apparel: From Factory Floor to Fitting Room
Source tagging at the factory, for roughly the cost of an upgraded care label, is why apparel leads the world in item-level RFID adoption. High SKU counts, rapid stock turn…
RFID and Omnichannel Retail: Enabling Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
Retailers without item-level RFID typically run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, and that gap is what quietly kills buy online, pick up in store. Every phantom stock…
Case Study: How a Botched RFID Transition Cost JC Penney $28 Million
JC Penney's item-level RFID rollout failed not because the technology did not work but because stores were never trained to act on the data it produced. The retreat cost the…
JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce
Germany went live in September 2026, taking JD Sports to 1,000 stores directly launched on RFID in fourteen months. The harder number sits behind it: source tagging by brand partners…
How to Run a Successful RFID Proof of Value (Not Just a Proof of Concept)
Pilots that prove readers work but never quantify the labour saved are why so many RFID projects stall after the trial. A proof of value tests the technology inside a…
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