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Marks&Spencer uses EM RFID chip for garment tracking
Marks & Spencer to Extend Trial to 53 Stores. Starting in spring 2006, the U.K. retailer will tag all items in six of the stores' clothing departments, RFIDJournal.com, 18th February 2005
Feb. 18, 2005 - U.K. clothing, food and home-products retailer Marks & Spencer will expand its RFID trial to 53 stores starting in the spring of 2006. According to the retailer, the move is based on the success of its current yearlong RFID trial involving men's suits at nine of its stores. In addition to expanding the number of stores using RFID, the company will also extend tagging to five other clothing departments and ask its suppliers to add RFID tag their products before shipping them to the retailer. [...]
"For us RFID is about making improvements in the stores. Everyone gets frustrated when the right size isn't available, so our aim is 100% availability" Stafford says [...]
"The results we have seen have been significant enough so that it looks like there will be a payback for ourselves and our customers in using RFID to manage relatively high-value and size-complex products," Stafford says.
[...] with microchips from Swiss company EM Microelectronic. The tags are made to hold a single unique serial number that is encoded onto the chip by EM Microelectronic.
[...] "We have carried out surveys [in trial stores regarding our RFID use] and had a very good reaction from customers. They hardly notice the tags but have mentioned improvements in product availability," Stafford says. [...]
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RFID a fit for garment tracking, Frontline Solutions, 20th October 2003
London-based retailer Marks & Spencer is piloting an item-level radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking system at its High Wycombe, England, store [...] the tags, which use chips from Swatch subsidiary EM Microelectronic, Switzerland. The 64-bit, 868MHz UHF tags are encoded with a unique identifier associated with a catalog number [...] Marks & Spencer will tag 10,000 men's suits, shirts and ties for the four-week trial, at a cost of around 30 pence per tag. Items will be tagged at the distribution center prior to delivery to the store, and scanned by store staff using custom-built, hand-held readers [...]
This article was posted at http://www.frontlinetoday.com/frontline/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=73076
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Marks & Spencer completes RFID trial, Frontline Solutions, 11th Dec. 2003
Retailer Marks & Spencer has completed a trial of UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking tags on men's clothing at one of its UK stores [...] "I am delighted with the initial results and recognise the value of the skills and experience within Intellident as our partner as we move forward – a true partnership which provides an unambiguous approach to the adoption of this exciting technology," said James Stafford, head of Marks & Spencer's RFID program [...] Intellident Ltd. invited used several sub-contractors for tag and reader design, including EM Microelectronic (a member company of the Swatch group based in Switzerland), IdealTag in France, and SAMSys Technologies in North America, all working closely with label provider Paxar UK [...]
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Marks & Spencer to extend RFID trials, Silicon.com, 3 February 2004
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is set to run more extensive trials of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags following the success of an initial pilot in items of clothing at its High Wycombe store near London [...] M&S has declared the trial a success, although it admits that some modifications need to be made to the hardware and software. The company said it will now look at a bigger pilot involving several stores as part of establishing the business case for RFID across its product range [...] The 'intelligent label' has been developed with Paxar and Dewhirst, and the scanner technology has been developed with Intellident and Samsys Technologies. The microchips were provided by Swiss company EM Microelectronic.
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