The omni-channel arena is about options—for the consumer. With multiple choices for purchasing (online, in-store) and deliver (pick-up/ship to home) and returning merchandise, the need for the near perfect inventory accuracy delivered by RFId has never been greater. … Continue Reading
WHY CONSUMERS ARE DRIVING RFID IN RETAIL
RFID enhances the entire shopping experience for consumers, across all channels and for every retail touch point, including from the fitting room to POS to refunds and returns. … Continue Reading
OMNI-CHANNEL AND ON THE ROAD: RFID MAKES INVENTORY EASIER
The recent Outdoor Retailer Summer Market indicates the move to omni-channel retail by an increasing number of brands, and shows the imperative for tight, accurate inventory management. With the ability to count hundreds of items in second while delivering near-perfect accuracy in the count, RFID is a critical, strategic technology for achieving retail success in today’s customer-concentric, omni-channel retail marketplace. … Continue Reading
RFID: Setting Fashion on a “Fast Forward” Trajectory
Truecount CEO Zander Livingston, a panelist at MIT Enterprise Forum’s “RFID Gets Fashion Forward” event, gives his views on where RFID is now, and where it might be headed regarding applications, deployments and expanded tagging. … Continue Reading
RFID: WHEN IT’S ALL ABOUT ENHANCING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Finding ways to keep customers “delighted” has never been more important, and the stakes for failing to please the customer never higher. It’s time to count the ways that RFID enhances the overall customer experience to give your store a distinct point of difference and a compelling advantage. … Continue Reading
RFID …. A whole lot more!
RFID is a powerful tool for loss intelligence–leading to unprecedented loss control. RFID technology can address all three shrink factors relating to shrink —internal theft, external theft and the paperwork accounting errors. Read why RFID addresses all three simultaneously while also providing support to other critical business insights, including the all critical inventory management that is specifically for Planners and Allocators of an organization. … Continue Reading
Kissing Your Stock-Outs Goodbye, and Other Reasons to Explore RFID
Out-of-Stocks cost retailers roughly $456.3 billion a year—and that’s just in measurable loss of revenues. In today’s wired world, one unhappy customer can broadcast their negative experience with your store to hundreds of friends and associates in seconds, disrupting future business. End those stock-outs with RFID. It’s easier than you think. … Continue Reading
As Retail Shrink Expands, Value of Item-Level RFID “Loss Intelligence” Grows
Retail loss is on the rise worldwide, reaching $119 billion in 2011, and accounting for 1.45 percent of retail sales—the highest shrink rate yet recorded. As the pace of increases across the globe, the power of item-level RFID to reduce loss by delivering high-quality loss intelligence is becoming more significant for retailers. … Continue Reading
RILA and RFID Journal LIVE! Perspective: Benefits of RFID for Loss Prevention/Loss Intelligence “Lost” on Many Retail Executives
RFID presents exciting new solutions to the age-old problem of shrinkage, or retail loss, providing unprecedented loss intelligence.
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Apparel retailers driving RFID ITL (Item-level tagging)
Apparel retailers are driving item-level passive UHF tags, with apparel and footware retailers rapidly increasing their share of the total world market for RFID tags. More than three quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in global apparel markets in 2011.
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