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…
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…
Bellaire library tags nearly 100,000 books in four months
Bellaire City Library in Texas tagged close to 100,000 books in four months, against an original estimate of nine months to a year. The shortcut was circulation itself: staff tagged…
300,000 documents across 120 libraries tagged with RFID by Conseil départemental de l’Aisne in France
The Aisne department in northern France is fitting RFID chips to 300,000 books, CDs and DVDs and redistributing them across the 120 libraries it supplies. Staff now process 30 items…
Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID
Keonn's upgraded AdvanTrack-600 overhead readers, built on Impinj's E710 chip with Gen2X, cut back-of-store inventory time from nearly an hour to under eight minutes in a 9,000-item store test. We…
The Total Cost of NOT Implementing RFID
Barcode-only operations run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, while RFID sites routinely sit above 95 per cent. That gap is stock you cannot sell, labour you keep…
University of Wyoming Libraries: 2M Items RFID-Tagged Across 6 Locations Including Grand Teton National Park
The University of Wyoming Libraries has tagged 2 million items with RFID across six locations, replacing a manual inventory process that previously took around five years to complete. The project…
RFID in Retail Inventory Management: The Accuracy Revolution
For decades, retailers have lived with a dirty secret: their inventory records are wrong. Traditional barcode-based systems typically deliver inventory accuracy of just 65-75%, meaning that for every ten items…
California’s First DCC-Approved RFID Self-Checkout Goes Live at Cannabis Dispensary
Perfect Union Northside in Sacramento has made history as the first cannabis dispensary in California to receive approval from the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) for RFID-powered self-checkout technology. The…
Hospital Clinic Barcelona RFID System – 20 Months In
When Hospital Clinic Barcelona began exploring RFID technology back in 2019, few could have predicted just how fundamentally it would reshape the way one of Spain’s most prestigious hospitals manages…
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