Retail

Businesses are currently grappling with economic uncertainties arising from labor shortages, supply constraints, and inflation, all of which hinder the post-pandemic recovery. As a business owner or leader, your goal is to ensure the long-term success and resilience of your company despite evolving market conditions and emerging technologies. A well-defined IT strategy can help you adapt swiftly, allowing for resource reallocation to align with changing priorities. So, what’s the most rational approach to long-term IT planning, particularly when it comes to label printing solutions?

Rising demand for automation and complex labeling applications has made automatic labeling grow in importance across various industries. Increasing customization, labeling requirements, and technological advances have led many businesses to search for solutions that help them cope with these growing demands while improving productivity and efficiency.

Whether you are a retailer, supplier, or intermediary such as a logistics partner, the importance of selecting the right RFID partners, printers and equipment cannot be overstated. RFID is complex. In a recent RFID presentation from the world’s leading retailer, their overriding message was, “RFID is difficult but worth it.” This means that selecting the right partners and equipment is often the critical difference between success and failure.

As a supplier, we hope you are ready to begin applying RFID labels to your products for your retail customers. In this blog, we’ll detail the steps you need to follow to properly tag your items with RFID.

The concept of environmental sustainability has become increasingly important in recent years. Regulations further strengthen the circular economy to support sustainability, aiming to achieve a carbon-neutral, environmentally sustainable, toxic-free, and fully circular economy by 2050.1 Businesses are now under pressure to implement sustainable practices in their operations to prompt the reduction of CO2 emissions. Linerless labels offer an environmentally sustainable method to support this goal.

Do you supply products to a major retailer? If so, your customer might have mandated you begin RFID-tagging your products. What are some RFID basics to help you comply with this requirement?

Items with RFID labels are now arriving at your brick-and-mortar stores. Hopefully, you view this as great news. What do you need to keep in mind to take advantage of these newly tagged items?

Successful RAIN RFID implementations in the retail industry depend on global standards to ensure that products are trackable across the value chain from the manufacturer through logistics partners and ultimately to the retailer. Regardless of the tags and equipment in use, who encoded the tags, or who is reading the tags, actors and trading partners in the retail value chain rely on standards to ensure interoperability.

In our previous blog, we outlined some of the challenges retailers and suppliers face when implementing e-commerce operations. From inventory management to choosing the most efficient labeling supplies, there’s a lot to consider when integrating e-commerce operations into your enterprise. In this blog, we will take a look at how RFID can help solve some of those challenges.

It’s virtually impossible to ignore the increase in retail e-commerce over the past five years. Even before COVID, e-commerce was accelerating rapidly. The limitations imposed during the pandemic not only accelerated e-commerce operations at an even faster rate but also made these operations business-critical for many retailers.