This is Part 2 of the Retail TouchPoints Inventory Strategies Report, a two-part feature highlighting best practices and technologies that help retailers improve their inventory management processes.

RFID may not have lived up to every extravagant prediction about how it would revolutionize retail, but the technology is actually doing very nicely, thank you. It has been adopted (often without ...

Impinj, a provider of EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tag and reader chips, has unveiled a new Store Performance Simulator (SPS), a Web-based analysis tool designed to enable retailers ...

BROCKTON, Mass. -- RFID technology pioneered by the MIT Auto-ID Center suffered a public relations setback last week as a major field test was halted and the Auto-ID Center was accused of downplaying ...

Retail transformation isn’t just about the digital front-end, it’s being redefined at its very core. At the heart of this retail revolution is RFID— enabling a smarter, faster and more resilient ...

Proving the authenticity of products has been a challenge to building consumer confidence for any brand. The rise of counterfeiting and illegal cloning have been a threat to retailers worldwide!

First off, price points on tags, hardware, software and RFID expertise have become more palatable. In addition, many of RFID’s infamous roadblocks—such as managing wireless signals, resolving back-end ...

The German retailer, Metro Group, has abandoned the RFID tags in its Future Store’s loyalty cards, following consumer concerns over personal privacy issues. The company has now issued a ‘position ...