It seems like we’ve been waiting for years for RFID-enabled appliances to become mainstream. RFID powered refrigerators, for example, could send a message to consumers and restaurant owners when food is about to expire, or automatically send a notice to your online grocery order that your milk needs to be replenished. Although that kind of [...]
Item level tagging by retailers like Walmart is driving growth of RFID technology in retail to new heights. The global RFID market in retail is expected to expand from $439.4 million in 2010 to more than $3.2 billion by 2015, representing annual growth of 49 percent. According to an executive brief released by VDC Research, [...]
Supply Chain Digest’s Dan Gilmore ran a very insightful piece on the plight of RFID in the CPG space last week. Gilmore traced the euphoria surrounding CPG and EPC tagging that started in earnest back in 2003. While there were very successful pilots run by the likes of Gillette and P&G at major retailers like [...]
RFID is proving to be a gem of a solution for French jeweler CLEOR, which has implemented RFID to improve its supply chain and all facets of its retail operations. The system powered by Impinj is in place throughout its 50 stores, which move nearly one million pieces of jewelry a year. The extremely scalable [...]
NXP and austriamicrosystems have developed the first in a range of RFID-based solutions for product authentication in embedded consumer applications such as printers and water purifiers that frequently require replacement parts. Through the use of RFID, manufacturers can track the use of non-certified replacement parts like ink cartridges, possibly leading to the voiding of product [...]
Invengo has signed a contract with USA ID, a division of consumer product giant Conair, to provide at least 20 million RFID labels per year. The contract represents the biggest deal yet for Invengo outside of China, and will help Conair and Invengo launch new services for apparel and garment tracking. Invengo will design and [...]
Proctor & Gamble may have decided to de-emphasize tagging of in-store displays at Wal-Mart stores, but Revlon is getting a maximum return from a similar tagging program with Walgreens. Revlon and Walgreens announced this week that RFID has substantially increased the average execution of tracked promotional displays across the drugstore chain. The two companies [...]