Wal-Mart says it’ll charge suppliers to its warehouse stores a fee of $2 for every pallet not tagged with RFID starting Jan. 30, InformationWeek reports. Yowzers! According to the story, the timeline (outlined in a letter earlier this month to Sam’s Club) is as follows: The timeline is as follows: Jan 30, 2008: pallet-level tagging […]

RFID provider Vue Technology this week announced that New Balance, the global athletic company, has successfully implemented an item-level RFID solution to track footwear from the distribution center to the corporate factory store. Using Vue Technology’s TrueVUE Platform combined with tags from Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, and handheld and fixed RFID readers and antennas […]

We’re hearing reports from RFID Update that Sam’s Club suppliers may face RFID fines from Wal-Mart. Apparently, Sam’s Club sent some suppliers a letter dated January 7, 2008, requiring EPC RFID tags be applied to distribution center shipments by January 31, 2008, RFID Update confirmed from multiple sources. The letter also outlines fines ranging from […]

STAPLES Business Depot will equip four additional stores with AbsoluteSKY’s intelliTRACKER Product Suite in early 2008. According to a news release dispatched this morning, STAPLES’ decision follows a highly successful installation of the automated, long-range inventory tracking system by the Fujitsu/AbsoluteSKY team in May 2007. “The results have been so impressive that we want to […]

TAGSYS, a maker of item-level RFID infrastructure products, today announced the Medio(TM) L400 – which it calls the industry’s first self-diagnostic and self-correcting long-range HF RFID reader. TAGSYS also announced that the Medio L400 will be compatible with the highly-anticipated, next-generation, high-performance EPCglobal RFID standard-HF Version 2 (V2)-via a simple firmware upgrade. TAGSYS Announces Intelligent […]

RFID technology provider Sirit Inc. and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company and RFID chip supplier founded by Philips, today announced they will jointly host an open Webcast on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. EST. The Webcast, “Capturing the Value of Gen 2 Custom Commands,” will focus on use cases and benefits of […]

Three enterprising, philanthropic college students are helping Mercy Medical Center employ some of the latest retail technology at its volunteer-operated gift shop, a Northwest subsidiary of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. The students, computer-science majors at University of Arkansas, have custom-built a software program enabling Mercy to use RFID in its gift shop. “With the implementation […]

Tel Aviv-based Visonic Technologies has released an All Weather Asset Tracking Tag, the news site UsingRFID.com reported earlier. The “robust” device, for tagging and monitoring heavy industrial mobile assets, has significantly reduced the needed infrastructure by greatly increasing the tag’s radio range, according to Visonic. It is capable of communicating using a number of standard […]

Years since Capton and its competitors started making these nifty little spouts to help bar managers control how much liquor gets into cocktails and shots, we’re finally hearing success stories. The latest, from Chicago (which happens to be the National Restaurant Association Trade Show city) is from The Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront. The 455-room […]

Intermec Technologies has announced that big-name industrial supplies manufacturer Honeywell is its latest Rapid Start RFID patent licensee. Intermec holds more than 154 RFID patents covering broad areas of supply chain applications, according to a company press release. Honeywell’s license will give it access to this technology with respect to portable RFID readers. Intermec Grants […]