When Mission Foods deployed RFID at its Texas distribution facilities in 2010, the company saved $700,000 on packaging costs by switching from corrugated boxes to reusable plastic boxes with embedded RFID tags. Last year Mission Foods rolled out the program to its West Coast DCs, resulting in an additional savings of $1 million. When the [...]

In case you missed this week’s issue of RFID 24-7, we’ve posted the article here. As the use of RFID explodes, the technology is being integrated into more and more consumer-facing applications. That was evident last week when Burger King announced that it is rolling out Coca-Cola’s RFID-enabled Freestyle soda machines to all 850 of [...]

For years, Alpha Baking sent out thousands of reusable assets every day, not knowing how long those bakery trays would be tied up in its supply chain, or if they would even return. Before the company discovered RFID technology, even manual tracking processes were too cumbersome to track the trays. In September, Alpha Baking concluded [...]

RFID technology is entering the fast food business in a big way. Last week Burger King announced that is installing Coca-Cola’s RFID-powered Freestyle soda dispensers at all 850 of its U.S. owned restaurants. According to the Wall Street Journal, the high-tech soda machines will be rolled out by April. The machines rely on Indy chips [...]

Academic research is driving new use cases in the RFID sector. Already this month RFID 24-7 has reported on research initiatives out of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Pittsburgh that are destined to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Now, the University of Dayton Research Institute is in the spotlight. The school, long a [...]

RFID is helping hotel owners to limit shrinkage when it comes to linens like towels, robes and bed sheets. According to reports in Time and the New York Times, hotels are embedding washable RFID tags into towels that trigger an alarm when guests leave the hotel with a atgged item. According to reports, three hotels [...]

The chief executive officer at iGPS is urging the U.S. Senate to mandate the latest tracking technology in legislation pending to overhaul the nation’s food safety law. Bob Moore, chairman & CEO of iGPS, says that cost-effective technology that allows products to be traced through the U.S. supply chain might have helped contain the spread [...]

Those complementary beers at the bar might be a thing of the past.  A new RFID- enabled solution from Clear View Technologies is designed to track alcohol so specifically that it can register changes in bottle weight by 1/20 of an ounce. Although the alcohol monitoring system is far more ideal for expensive top shelf [...]