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Tweet British Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is expanding its use of RFID technology to all clothing and home wares in its stores. RFID partners since 2003, Marks & Spencer and Avery Dennison have worked together for 9 years to create specific RFID tags that are fully integrated into a complete range of labels and [...]
Tweet The RFID tagging of apparel is now the largest and fastest growing application of RFID in retailing, the retail supply chain and associated industries. About 100 organizations are tagging apparel in trials and rollouts. Just two – taken together – will buy 500 million tags yearly. According to new IDTechEx analysis, the systems and [...]
Tweet Toronto-based Danier Leather Inc. , Canada’s largest retailer of leather clothing and accessories, has selected Truecount Corporation to pilot Truecount’s RFID software in three of its retail locations. “Danier launched two stores in April and recently added an additional store,” says Zander Livingston, Truecount’s CEO. “The three stores will be used as pilots to [...]
Tweet Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. has introduced smart technology to coffee brewing in the office with the launch of its RFID enabled Keurig Vue brewing system. The single cup at a time brewing system can now deliver more hotter, bigger and stronger coffee with the use of automated preset selections that can be chosen [...]
Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) Impinj introduced a newer and simplified version of EPC Management by creating a serialization method that is supported by high-frequency RFID inlays. The Monza 5 tag chip powers the inlays. A Self-Serialized Global Trade Item Number (SGTIN) is generated by the Monza Self-Serialization system. This is generated directly from each tag chip. Retail [...]
Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) According to a new study from the VICS Item-Level RFID Initiative (VILRI), a group of advocates for the use of EPC-enabled RFID in the retail supply line, 2012 is predicted to be a “tipping point” year for RFID technology. The study is titled, “RFID Nears a Tipping Point,” and reveals that 80 percent [...]
Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) Rivers Casino recently installed InvoTech’s GIMS automatic ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID garment tracking system. The system will aid in managing over 20,000 custom-made staff uniforms. Invotech has signed a contract with Rivers Casino which includes providing UHF-RFID tracking tags directly to the casinos uniforms supplier so that the uniforms are made with the [...]
Tweet (RFID World Canada) A leader in customer service excellence, Fields Automotive Group, has made the call to expand the use of MyDealerLot’s RFID technology throughout the Southeast and Chicago for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, and MINI. Their largest BMW store was used as a pilot to test and completely experience the customer recognition and messaging [...]
Tweet Macy’s Inc. recently announced that its Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores are launching RFID technology tags to manage store merchandise and to keep track of replenished inventory both on hand and in the warehouses. Replenishment goods on hand have been tracked for the past two years at select Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores as well as [...]
Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) Wal-mart Stores Inc. will soon roll out sophisticated electronic tags that will keep track of number, types and sizes of jeans and underwear. Advocates of this radio-frequency ID (RFID) tags say that inventory will be better organized eliminating theft whereas critics claim that the new technology will invade individual privacy. Hand held scanner [...]
