Radio frequency identification (RFID) has generated interest among retailers and consumer goods companies as a method to track inventory more effectively. IBM's new package, launched at this week's Electronic Product Code Symposium in Chicago...
The overwhelming message from the world's biggest retailers and RFID-fans to their suppliers is - don't wait to be told to use RFID, start your projects now. The issue of cost was also playing on suppliers' minds, with one not-as-yet RFID-enabled...
The retail giant launched a major RFID pilot with eight of its largest suppliers, including HP, earlier this month. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are chips that are armed with antennae and provide detailed information about the...
The companies have been ramping up RFID hardware production as major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Target and Albertsons, launch big RFID projects and place more orders. Mike Meranda, president of EPC Global US, the group that organised the...
RFID, an electronic identification technology, is attracting a lot of attention as a next-generation bar code that could save retailers and their suppliers billions of dollars in logistics and inventory costs.
Another major technology shift expected to hit retailers in the coming years is radio frequency identification, or RFID, which is at the core of a next-generation bar code system that Wal-Mart Stores, Target and other big guns are now testing.