A German department store, the Galeria Kaufhof in Essen, part of the Metro retailing group, is using RFID technology in a new way. Of course, it is using the tags to track the clothing items from its ...

Wilfried Kanzok, head of logistics for central functions at German retailer Kaufhof Warenhaus, told an audience at CeBIT, the large electronics exhibition in Hanover, Germany, that mass adoption of ...

Buying clothes in person can be a frustrating experience. You go to the fitting room, try on the item, and find you've picked the wrong size. You then have to get dressed, go back onto the shop floor, ...

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Until recently, Dutch fashion label Scotch & Soda tracked inventory like most fashion companies do: employees hand-counted items in stores once a month by scanning individual barcodes. Now, the ...

RFID stands for “radio frequency identification,” and refers to a technology that uses radio waves to transmit information short distances. An RFID asset tracking system uses a combination of tags ...

RFID hacking has been around for years, but so far all the builds to sniff data out of someone’s wallet have been too large, too small a range, or were much too complicated for a random Joe to build ...