Item-Level RFID Tested in Europe, but Cases Await

NEW YORK—When it comes to talk of RFID implementation, Wal-Mart is usually at the center of it. But at the National Retail Federation Convention here, two large European retailers are making some noise of their own. At a press conference Monday, speakers from Tesco and the Metro Group said the two retailers are already performing limited pilots of item-level RFID.

Yet both are waiting for the epcGlobal Generation 2 (Gen 2) spec to kick in before stepping beyond pallets into case-level RFID in warehouse environments.

Read the rest of this eWEEK story: "Item-Level RFID Tested in Europe, but Cases Await".

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