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…
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…
RFID Tagging Strategies: Source Tagging vs In-House Tagging
Shifting tag application upstream to manufacturers cuts per-unit costs sharply, but onboarding suppliers can take months and demands ongoing compliance audits. Keeping tagging in-house buys control at the price of…
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…
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…
RFID for Loss Prevention: Beyond the Traditional Security Tag
Traditional EAS tags either trigger an alarm or they do not, and generate no data either way. Serialised UHF RFID tracks every item from the back door to the exit,…
RFID for Airport Duty Free: Up to 99% Stock Accuracy
Item-level RFID can lift airport duty free stock accuracy to as much as 99 per cent, according to Checkpoint Systems, which puts typical barcode-based counting at 70 to 80 per…
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…
Bluesight and Pfizer to Provide Source-Tagged RFID Medications to Hospital Pharmacies
Bluesight has announced a strategic partnership with Pfizer Global Hospital & Biosimilars that will bring source-tagged RFID medications to hospital pharmacies across the United States. The collaboration integrates Pfizer’s SmartDose…
Case Study: Marks & Spencer – Navigating RFID’s Technical Challenges
When Marks & Spencer first began experimenting with RFID technology back in 2003, few could have predicted the journey that lay ahead. Nearly two decades of trial, error, and persistence…
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