Six years of RFID tags now carry C&A’s whole store format
C&A Brasil tagged its first store in June 2020 and reached 100 RFID stores by September 2021. The Energia format it began rolling out in 2025 puts self-checkout, in-store product…
Case Study: Cooperatie Hoogstraten – RFID Tracking Strawberries Field to Shelf
More than 1,000 growers and 45,000 tonnes of strawberries a year run through Cooperatie Hoogstraten, and every reusable crate now carries a RAIN RFID inlay. The Belgian cooperative can trace…
H&M Checkout Transformation with Chainway SR160 RFID Scanner
Chainway says H&M cut checkout time by up to 80 per cent by replacing two counter scanners with one SR160, a handheld that reads UHF RFID tags and printed barcodes…
RFID Tag Costs: Where Are We in 2026 and Where Are We Heading?
Passive UHF inlays now sell for 4 to 8 cents, and 50-million-unit buyers are negotiating towards 2 cents. Chip die shrinks from Impinj and NXP keep pushing prices down, yet…
RFID Event Processing: CEP Engines and Why Real-Time Matters
Thousands of tag reads per second are worthless as raw data; complex event processing engines turn them into decisions while they still matter. By correlating reads across dock doors and…
Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’
Animate will fit PubteX's BOOKTRAIL RFID system across every one of its Japanese stores, targeting RFID-based store operations by April 2029. The tags arrive already inside the book, tucked in…
Overhead RFID goes mainstream as GreyOrange passes 3,800 stores with H&M
GreyOrange says more than 3,800 retail locations now run its gStore platform, tracking roughly 200 million items with UHF RFID. H&M Group accounts for hundreds of those stores across three…
Asda completes electronic shelf label rollout across all UK Express stores
Asda has completed electronic shelf labels across all 517 UK Express stores, 1.2 million units for GBP 7.5 million, ending the weekly swap of 120,000 paper tickets. The VusionGroup labels…
What the hard plastic tag on clothes actually does
It has no battery, no serial number and, in almost every case, no ink. Here is what is really inside a clothes security tag, why the pin will not pull…
Sainsbury’s deploys RFID to Tu in 400 stores
Tu clothing is getting RFID in 400 Sainsbury's stores, with full implementation reported for early next month after a successful pilot. Clothing MD Ben Smith says the technology lets the…
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