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RAIN Alliance Reports 42.7 Billion Tag Chip Shipments in 2025

RAIN Alliance Reports 42.7 Billion Tag Chip Shipments in 2025

The RAIN Alliance has released its latest market data, revealing that 42.7 billion RAIN UHF RFID tag chips were shipped globally in 2025. While the figure represents a dip from…

Case Study: How Decathlon Tags 600 Million Products a Year with RFID

Case Study: How Decathlon Tags 600 Million Products a Year with RFID

When Decathlon first began experimenting with RFID back in 2008, the French sporting goods giant had a straightforward problem. Products were going missing, stocktakes were painfully slow, and customers were…

Checkpoint Systems Announces ItemOptix 2.0 with Enhanced Retail Intelligence Capabilities

Checkpoint Systems Announces ItemOptix 2.0 with Enhanced Retail Intelligence Capabilities

Checkpoint Systems has launched Version 2.0 of ItemOptix, its RFID-powered retail intelligence platform, marking a significant step forward from basic inventory visibility toward actionable business insights across the entire retail…

Party Fiesta Enters Retail 4.0 with Full RFID Ecosystem at Barcelona Flagship

Party Fiesta Enters Retail 4.0 with Full RFID Ecosystem at Barcelona Flagship

Party Fiesta, Europe’s largest party and fancy dress retail chain, has taken a major step into what the industry is calling Retail 4.0 by deploying a full RFID ecosystem at…

Avery Dennison Announces First-to-Market Integration of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s Flexible NFC Chip at Mass Scale

Avery Dennison Announces First-to-Market Integration of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s Flexible NFC Chip at Mass Scale

Avery Dennison has announced what it describes as the first-to-market mass-scale integration of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s flexible NFC chip technology. The partnership brings together Avery Dennison’s RFID and NFC inlay manufacturing…

Amazons Enhanced RFID lanes deploy in hours at events

Amazons Enhanced RFID lanes deploy in hours at events

Amazon has unveiled its next-generation portable RFID checkout lanes, engineered to deploy in hours rather than weeks. The updated Just Walk Out technology targets pop-up shops, festivals, sporting venues and…

SML’s InfuseRFID Wins 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award

SML’s InfuseRFID Wins 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award

SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded RFID technology has been recognised with the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award, a notable achievement that validates the growing role of embedded UHF RFID in sustainable…

JD Sports Teams up wth Checkpoint to Transform Inventory Accuracy and Shelf Availability

JD Sports Teams up wth Checkpoint to Transform Inventory Accuracy and Shelf Availability

JD Sports Fashion has signed a multi-year global software agreement with Checkpoint Systems, selecting the ItemOptix RFID Inventory Management platform to roll out across its Sports Fashion Group stores, beginning…

Introducing the New Chainway R7 UHF RFID Reader

Introducing the New Chainway R7 UHF RFID Reader

The Chainway R7 is a sled-style UHF RFID reader that turns any smartphone or PDA into a serious RFID data capture tool. It clips onto your device or attaches magnetically,…

Avery Dennison launches AD IdentiFresh to unlock efficiency, freshness and waste reduction in food retail

Avery Dennison launches AD IdentiFresh to unlock efficiency, freshness and waste reduction in food retail

Avery Dennison has launched the AD IdentiFresh inlay series, a purpose-built range of UHF RFID inlays designed to bring item-level visibility to fresh food categories including bakery, meat, deli and…

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