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Case Study: The South African Retailer That Couldn’t Make RFID Stick
What the gates at shop doors actually detect
Corny bar maker Schwartauer Werke automates workwear issue with ACG Pulse RFID
Japanese recycler uses UHF RFID to stop power-tool batteries reaching the shredder
How does Zara’s self-checkout work?
Case Study: The South African Retailer That Couldn’t Make RFID Stick
A 120-store South African fashion chain spent heavily on RFID between 2018 and 2020, targeting a jump from 64 per cent inventory accuracy to above 90, and mothballed the system…
RFID News weekly digest, 5 November 2026
Thursday's email in full, now open to everyone: 31 stories, led by Prada’s NFC tags move beyond authentication to supply-chain traceability.
What the gates at shop doors actually detect
They cannot tell what you are carrying or whether you paid. Inside the two technologies in those grey pedestals, why a forgotten label beeps three shops later, the foil bag…
Corny bar maker Schwartauer Werke automates workwear issue with ACG Pulse RFID
Schwartauer Werke, maker of Schwartau jams and Corny bars, has swapped manual workwear handouts for pooled rental from Elis and an RFID gate from ACG Pulse that logs issue and…
Japanese recycler uses UHF RFID to stop power-tool batteries reaching the shredder
A recycler in Chiba Prefecture strips washing machines by hand, then crushes the parts whole. Maspro Denkoh fitted a circularly polarised UHF antenna at the shredder infeed: if a tagged…
How does Zara’s self-checkout work?
Put a pile of clothes on a Zara self-checkout and every item appears at once, with no barcodes and no unfolding. The tag doing that work is a battery-free radio…
Primark to roll out RFID across its ranges as ABF boss admits fulfilment accuracy ‘not good enough’
Primark has funded an RFID rollout for its ranges, in phases across all markets, after ABF chief executive George Weston told analysts on 3 November 2026 that fulfilment accuracy is…
RFID in Libraries: The Original Mass-Deployment Success Story
A large public library holds half a million items, and before RFID a full shelf-read happened perhaps once every few years. Self-service kiosks, security gates and handheld inventory wands made…
If you cannot secure an RFID reader, you should not be putting it on a client’s network
The freezer attacks across Europe used basic failings in networked devices that contractors maintain remotely. Fixed RFID readers have the same profile, and integrators need to own that.
Six-store activewear brand Varley lifts inventory accuracy from under 70% to 99% with RFID
Varley tagged roughly 5,000 items in each of its six US and UK stores and took inventory accuracy from below 70% to more than 99%. The brand signed with Datascan…
Korean uniform maker Hyungji Elite signs with Beontag to RFID-tag 2027-season products
Beontag will supply RFID tags for 4 million pieces of Hyungji Elite's 2027 season, the first hard number since the Korean uniform maker signed a memorandum of understanding in October…
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