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Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’

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

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

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

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

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 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

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…

Tesco’s RFID Journey – From Sceptic to Advocate

Tesco’s RFID Journey – From Sceptic to Advocate

When Tesco first began evaluating RFID technology for its UK stores, the reaction inside the business was cautious at best. Britain’s largest supermarket chain had watched early RFID pilots in…

CONTROLTEK Appoint Timothy Beckett to drive EAS and RFID solutions throughout Canada

CONTROLTEK Appoint Timothy Beckett to drive EAS and RFID solutions throughout Canada

CONTROLTEK Strengthens Canadian Presence with Appointment of Timothy Beckett as Key Account Manager CONTROLTEK, a leading provider of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) and RFID-based retail loss prevention solutions, has announced…

Sensormatic Solutions’ RFID delivers gains in Supply Chain Visibility and eliminates shipping errors at Brooks Running distribution centre.

Sensormatic Solutions’ RFID delivers gains in Supply Chain Visibility and eliminates shipping errors at Brooks Running distribution centre.

Brooks Running Achieves 100% Shipping Accuracy with Sensormatic RFID Brooks Running, the Seattle-based athletic footwear brand, has eliminated shipping errors at its primary U.S. distribution centre after deploying an RFID-powered…

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