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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…

Lager 157 and ClarityRFID: a Nordic RFID pilot that delivered 98% stock accuracy

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…

GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange has bought Site Bionics, whose software turns a store's existing security cameras into a live digital twin, and will fold it into gStore alongside item-level RFID. Terms were undisclosed.…

RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds

RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds

Scan a tagged handbag with your phone and your avatar can wear a verified digital twin of it. Luxury brands are already embedding NFC and UHF inlays as authentication keys…

River Island Opens RFID Concept Store at centre:mk With Weight-Sensing Self-Checkout

River Island Opens RFID Concept Store at centre:mk With Weight-Sensing Self-Checkout

River Island's new 12,800 sq ft store at centre:mk, opened on 28 September 2026, is billed as an RFID-driven concept. The chain has in fact run EPC UHF RFID across…

Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026

Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026

An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…

JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce

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…

RAIN in Action Madrid, day one: RAIN enabled smartphones, sensing, and a pair of socks

RAIN in Action Madrid, day one: RAIN enabled smartphones, sensing, and a pair of socks

Cisper were handing out socks on day one of RAIN in Action in Madrid, and our editor has agreed to wear them. Also: why the case for RAIN enabled smartphones…

RAIN In Action Madrid 2026 Starts

RAIN In Action Madrid 2026 Starts

RAIN in Action 2026 opened in Madrid this morning, just as RAIN tag chip shipments fell to 42.7 billion in 2025 from a record 52.8 billion in 2024. RAIN Alliance…

Zebra adds Impinj Gen2X across its RFID range as six makers put RAIN into mobiles

Zebra adds Impinj Gen2X across its RFID range as six makers put RAIN into mobiles

Impinj and Zebra Technologies are announcing today that Zebra is adding Gen2X support across its entire RFID range: the MC33 family, TC22R, TC501 and TC701 handhelds, the RFD40 and RFD90…

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