RFID and technology developer Freedom Shopping, Inc., has reached a breakthrough with its the retail industry’s first OEM offering that plugs into existing cash registers and point-of-sale terminals to enable RFID checkout and more. “This fundamentally changes the way stores will operate – sales increase, labor costs decrease and ‘intelligent security’ reduces shrinkage,” said Rob […]

Checkpoint Systems, a manufacturer and marketer of identification, tracking, security and merchandising products for the retail industry and its supply chain, today announced it will provide RFID portals for 200 Real hypermarkets of METRO Group in Germany in 2008. This follows the successful deployment in 2007 of the portals at more than 100 Real hypermarkets. […]

Item-level RFID entrepreneur TAGSYS announced that Portuguese fashion retailer, Throttleman, has received the ‘Best Enterprise Solution’ award from the EHI Retail Institute. EHI, the 500-member global retail trade association, presented the award to Throttleman for its successful deployment of a supply chain solution built upon TAGSYS’ UHF RFID tunnel. Integrating an RFID infrastructure has enabled […]

Sure, pilots are necessary growing pains of any maturing markets. But with RFID, we’re starting to see quicker turnarounds to implementation, says Mike Liard, one of ABI Reserch’s analysts who follows the market. From simple closed-loop applications such as security/access control in an office building to complex open-loop applications such as item-level tracking, RFID technology […]

Sirit and TAGSYS announced a new partnership this morning that will bring together each company’s technology – hopefully for better results. “Bringing together complementary technologies from Sirit and TAGSYS represents an important milestone in our ability to bring the best technology to our customers, which leads to integrated, application-specific systems that exceed customer expectations,” said […]

It’s true, in NYC Fashion Week’s come and gone (at least till Fall time), but item-level RFID manufacturer TAGSYS is just getting started. The company announced it will demonstrate its complete ultra-high frequency (“UHF”) RFID infrastructure designed specifically for the unique needs of the apparel industry at Euroshop 2008. Calling Euroshop is the “ideal venue […]

We’re hearing rumors that Prince Andrew, Duke of York, met today with Dean A. Scarborough, president and chief executive officer of Avery Dennison, and other Company senior managers to discuss new RFID technology that the company is providing London-based retailer, Marks & Spencer. FYI, item-level RFID tagging has reduced stocking time from 7.5 hours to […]

Domino ISG, a global AIDC integrator, now has a program to bring Sam’s Club suppliers up to speed with mandates requiring RFID-compliant shipments by January 31, 2008, the company announced this morning (Details below). As of October 2009, Sam’s Club will require item-level tagging to the DeSoto, Texas, distribution center with additional item-level tagging required […]

Singapore’s S. Iswaran, Minister for Trade, announced the launch of the new National RFID Innovation Platform, a multi-agency initiative to encourage the public and private sectors in Singapore to embark on innovative projects using RFID as a key enabling technology. To spur RFID adoption further, Mr. Iswaran announced that a sum of US$4.5 million has […]

EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, has shipped over 250 Million Tag-Talks-Only (TTO) UHF RFID chips, primarily for the manufacturing of intelligent labels for garment tagging in the fashion industry. Marks & Spencer’s RFID initiative in apparel is known to be the world’s largest item-level tagging project and thereby establishes EM’s UHF […]