This week, the Spanish clothing company Inditex announced its intention to tag every item of clothing sold in its Zara stores using an RFID technology (radio frequency identification). Designed to ...

Tyco worked with Inditex to develop the resulting Sensormatic RFID/AM hard tag that comes with a standard EPC ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) passive RFID tag, as well as the functionality of its existing ...

As far as wireless technologies go, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the oldest. Patented in 1983 by the late British inventor Charles Walton, RFID made it possible for new, ...

RFID tags can store information such as the product name, price, expiration date, and origin. RFID readers can read this information from a distance, without requiring direct contact or line of sight.

While 2015 was dominated by omnichannel retailing and the digital wallet, retailers are now looking at speedy delivery, beacons, RFID tags and other emerging technologies in 2016. ROI is a key factor ...