Retailer American Apparel has fully deployed RFID at its 254 stores around the world and will further utilize RFID to enable self-checkout in the upcoming months. In addition, the retail chain is piloting a fixed infrastructure reader system that will allow it to eliminate the use of handheld readers in the future. American Apparel, which [...]

The jewelry industry typically enjoys shrink rates that are far lower than the rest of the retail world. That makes sense because so much inventory is held behind lock and key. Even a relatively low industry shrink rate of 0.52 percent wasn’t good enough for Erin Limas, the chief financial officer at Borsheims, a single-store [...]

In November RFID 24-7 published an article about an RFID-enabled grocery store pilot in Russia dubbed the Store of the Future. Few details about the project were coming out of Russia at the time, but we felt it was important to get the bare details out to the RFID community. Over the past several weeks [...]

Tyco Retail Solutions continues to see strong growth in the RFID retail apparel market and expects to double the current 1,000 retail locations using its technology by this fall. As demand steadily increases, Tyco expects to ship more than 750 million of its Sensormatic brand RFID tags (with the ability to be re-circulated) by this fall, [...]

Retailers lose nearly $9 billion to shoplifting and internal shrink during the six week holiday shopping period before Christmas. RFID, however, is likely to put a big bite into retail theft by changing the landscape for high-theft products. According to the Centre for Retail Research, the top product categories targeted by thieves during the Christmas [...]

For those that missed the lead story in last week’s edition of RFID 24-7, we’ve posted it here. Early this year I blogged about my shopping experience at a Clark’s retail store in Massachusetts. At the time I figured that the chain’s inability to quickly locate inventory in its back room was costing Clark’s up [...]

Early this year I blogged about my shopping experience at a Clark’s retail store in Massachusetts. At the time I figured that the chain’s inability to quickly locate inventory in its back room was costing Clark’s up to $15 million a year in lost sales. I never thought I’d come across an example that screamed [...]

American Apparel is bullish on RFID. In its earnings report released last week, the troubled retailer identifies RFID as a major key to its turnaround plan. American Apparel, a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of branded fashion-basic apparel, announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2012 on Aug. 14. “Though the [...]

Nordic ID hosted its Experience Fashion RFID event in Paris event last week. The gathering included a host of case studies from the fashion apparel industry. Retailers from around the globe, such as Persian Gulf retailer Liwa Stores/GANT, presented updates on RFID deployments. Topics like privacy and training were also covered. After a successful pilot [...]

New research from Frost & Sullivan predicts that the RFID apparel market will grow to a $1.47 billion in 2017, behind strong demand for item-level tagging by retailers. In its report, Frost & Sullivan says that the apparel sector generated $420 million in revenues in 2010. “The need for business process management is expected to [...]