Korean shops get NFC stickers that call police with a phone tap for lone female shopkeepers
SEMAS has put NFC smart safety tags on the counters of 75 shops in two Daejeon alley trading districts, letting a shopkeeper tap a phone to reach the 112 police…
Japanese drug wholesaler KSK swaps paper delivery slips for NFC card receipts in Hitachi rollout
From November 2026, drivers at Osaka drug wholesaler KSK will take receipt of medicine deliveries by reading a pharmacy or hospital's NFC card with a smartphone, instead of a paper…
Beontag puts NFC behind Bulgari’s connected luxury experience
Beontag's case library carries a Bulgari project in which an NFC tag sits hidden under the logo, giving each piece a digital channel that lasts the product's life. The case…
Prada’s NFC tags move beyond authentication to supply-chain traceability
Every garment in Prada's Re-Cashmere and Re-Wool lines, on sale from October 2026, carries a 13.56 MHz NFC tag linked to the Aura blockchain. The tap no longer just proves…
CMA proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC to HCE in the UK
The UK regulator wants Apple to open the iPhone NFC controller to Host Card Emulation, not just Secure Element, with the choice sitting with the developer. Two years after Apple…
Fukui turns to NFC tags to rebuild trust in Echizen crab after labelling scandal
Fukui Prefecture is fitting tags with an integrated circuit chip to male snow crabs of 1.1 kg or more from 6 November 2026, so a shopper can check the fisher…
RFID in Fashion and Apparel: From Factory Floor to Fitting Room
Source tagging at the factory, for roughly the cost of an upgraded care label, is why apparel leads the world in item-level RFID adoption. High SKU counts, rapid stock turn…
RFID and Omnichannel Retail: Enabling Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
Retailers without item-level RFID typically run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, and that gap is what quietly kills buy online, pick up in store. Every phantom stock…
Case Study: How a Botched RFID Transition Cost JC Penney $28 Million
JC Penney's item-level RFID rollout failed not because the technology did not work but because stores were never trained to act on the data it produced. The retreat cost the…
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