Building on Retail's RFID Foundation

In 2007, the RFID Research Center identified and began promoting what we call the four foundational use cases for RFID in retail: inventory accuracy, out-of-stocks, product location and loss detection. All retailers face these issues, and RFID addresses each of the issues head-on. By 2009, inventory accuracy, which affects the other foundational use cases, had become the silver bullet for RFID adoption. That's why, in my first column for RFID Journal magazine, in 2012, I wrote that any retailer not actively considering tagging and tracking items to improve inventory accuracy had better "get in the game"