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Oct. 1--Last week, we wrote about information technology in the retail industry, including what the world's large grocery chains have done in applying the information technology to improve their operations. When talking about technology in the retail supply chain, we really need to emphasise probably one of the most important technologies in this decade, Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID.
RFID is considered to be a successor to the barcode system; bar coding has been around for more than 30 years, practical RFID technology has really just been developed in the past decade.
Conceptually, RFID works in a very similar way to the barcode system, but it uses different technology to collect data. To put it simply: Barcode technology uses labels that are attached to items and readers to scan the labels. RFID technology uses tags ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bangkok Post, Thailand, The Weekly Link Column.