marks and spencer rfid
Speeding Perishables Through the Supply Chain
White Paper Moving from bar codes to reusable RFID smart labels, Marks & Spencer, one of Europe's largest retailers, is pioneering the largest RFID supply chain deployment the market has seen to date - 3.5 million tags. [30 Aug 2007]
Essex libraries embrace RFID
News The RFID tags - created by Intellident which claims retailers Tesco and Marks and Spencer as customers - allow borrowers to check out books without occupying library staff. Essex libraries are embracing RFID technology to improve customer service... [21 Jun 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Marks and Spencer has long been associated with being at the forefront of flogging ladies' undies. RFID has also made an appearance in the army to try and reduce casualties from 'friendly fire' incidents. [30 Nov 2006]
Marks & Spencer extends RFID tagging nationwide
News Marks & Spencer (M&S) is to extend the item-level radio frequency ID (RFID) tagging of clothing items following successful trials in 42 stores. M&S has been one of the early UK pioneers in using RFID tags in the retail sector and first trialled the... [14 Nov 2006]
Leader: RFID - not if, but when
Leader It was announced this week that adopting RFID could slash airlines' $1bn lost luggage bill and Marks and Spencer is planning to extend its RFID trials. Marks and Spencer's behaviour would gladden the hearts of the EU working party. [25 Feb 2005]
Storm in a D-cup: Marks & Sparks expands RFID trials
News Marks and Spencer has decided to take RFID technology into even more stores. The telco's Auto-ID centre is also involved in the rollout of RFID technology in Marks and Spencer's food supply chain. To try to allay customers' privacy fears, the tags... [22 Feb 2005]
Electronic Product Code: RFID Drives the Next Revolution in Adaptive Retail Supply Chain Execution
White Paper Wal-Mart, US Department of Defense, Metro Group, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Carrefour, Albertson's, and Target Corp are all asking suppliers to use Radio Frequency Identification RFID) to track goods as they move through the supply chain. [20 Dec 2004]
Retailer to put RFID chips in all clothing - but who is it?
News Like Marks and Spencer before it, the organisation will put the RFID chips in tags attached to the clothes. At Checkpoint's stand at the Expo, both Calvin Klein and Champion had sample clothing labels with RFID tags incorporated. [24 Sep 2004]
RFID: It's no supply chain saviour - not yet anyway
Comment Tesco has been trying the technology, as has Marks and Spencer, which has been playing with item-level tagging after an initial trial starting last October. Because RFID gives you the chance to store data about individual items and palettes of... [08 Sep 2004]
Wipro Seeks Expanded RFID Role
White Paper The company, which provides software development and IT services to some of the world’s largest 100 retailers, including Best Buy, Marks and Spencer and Home Depot, says its experience with a number of RFID trial deployments in Europe has already... [25 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.05.04
Round-Up Major retailers on both sides of the pond are trialling the chips now with Wal-Mart, House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer and Tesco all looking at how to use the technology. But there appears there is an easy way to kill zombie RFID chips and silicon... [21 May 2004]
Cheat sheet: RFID
Cheat Sheet Some major chains like Wal-Mart, House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer and Tesco have trialled RFID. One German supermarket put RFID chips in all their loyalty cards without informing shoppers and let the chips transmit even when shoppers had left the... [16 Apr 2004]
5 years ago... Marks & Spencer takes IT off the board
News 01.03.99: The IT community has rounded on Marks & Spencer for banishing the top IT job in the company from the board of directors. Most recently, M&S has been trialling RFID tracking technology. And while it flew in the face of a silicon.com... [01 Mar 2004]
Leader: For RFID read KISS
Leader Such a fall isn't such a bad thing when we're talking about the nitty-gritty of real world trials at organisations such as Gillette, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Wal-Mart. The possibilities surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) chips... [20 Feb 2004]
RFID: Beware the business pitfalls
News Large organisations such as Wal-Mart, Gillette and Marks & Spencer have all flirted with RFID to date and many more companies appear to have adopted a watching brief as they gauge the extent of public opposition to the monitoring tags amid privacy... [13 Feb 2004]
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