Now it's almost a year since UPM Raflatac, RFID tag and inlay manufacturer, announced that it is taking part in the largest retail RFID pilot project in China. The company had been selected by...

Item level tagging is happening fast -- faster than most people realize. It was not so long ago that most analysts and industry insiders were suggesting item-level tagging was years away. Well, it...

The date has been finally set. Wal-Mart would no longer be accepting the use of Gen 1 tags on the cases and pallets it receives from its suppliers. The deadline was announced during a speech at the...

Marks & Spencer, the large British retailer, is extending its item-level RFID tagging to more articles of clothing -- among them, ladies underwear. The move is designed to help the retailer better...

RFID in the bank branch of the future, via an article in CNET: "Welcome to the bank of the future. For all the talk of the Internet killing off the branch network, around half of a bank's...

Staying with my theme about the U.S. holidays for just one more post, let me point you to an important article about RFID in the retail setting, in the publication Line 56, called "RFID...

From all the trees that have been killed to publish media reports on the Wal-Mart mandate and similar retailer initiatives, you might have the impression that RFID was in widespread use in retail...

Here's an interesting future use of RFID: RFID enabled clothing. Michael over at the Techwear Weblog (yes, wearable technology is an emerging new area), points to some student projects involving...

Item-level tagging is the key to the retail store of the future. So says IBM. You are probably aware of the big push IBM has made into RFID. In fact, you can see it right on the IBM home......

OK, I admit, the title of this post is a bit of an exaggeration. RFID can't exactly help the blind see -- at least not yet. However, a new system being implemented June 1 in Seattle, Washington...

RFID gets so much press in supply chain and retail applications that we can forget all the other places where the technology plays a role. For instance -- libraries. The Library Journal reports that...

Wait 'til the marketing and advertising departments figure this out.... New Scientist magazine reports that a German student has discovered how to include a product jingle in an RFID tag:...

The RFID Journal has an interesting opinion piece by a professor and a researcher at the St. Gallen Auto-ID Lab in Switzerland about using EPC tags to combat counterfeiting of retail goods:...

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To Catch a Thief is a new RFID-based product offering that promises to end scams involving returns of stolen goods for cash refunds. (And if you're financing your way through college -- or your...

As we get closer to Wal-Mart's deadline for requiring suppliers to implement RFID, the real status of compliance is coming out -- via unidentified sources. Sound like the warehouse manager's...

The next few years are going to be busy times for CIOs and IT execs in the retail industry. Especially for IT executives who understand the potential cost savings and efficiencies to be gained from...

BusinessWeek has an interesting article about the high hopes for RFID to prevent shrinkage in the retail industry. Every year retailers lose about US$33.6 Billion due to shoplifting, employee theft,...

Best Buy, the U.S. "big box" retailer, announced that it plans to deploy electronic product code technology over the next several years. It will require major suppliers to use EPC-compliant...

Wipro Technologies has launched an RFID-enabled retail store on its sprawling corporate campus in Bangalore, India. The concept store is designed to demonstrate how radio frequency can automate...