RFID and AIDC News: Zara's Aggressive Move to Item-Level Tagging Features Plan to Re-Use Tags

Zara, the dominant banner in Spain's Inditex SA retail portfolio, recently announced major plans to roll out item-level RFID tagging in all its stores. As details of its program begin to emerge, interesting news that Zara has come up with an approach that will allow it to re-use the passive RFID chips and thus reduce its operating costs for the program. It is assumed that Zara will ship the RFID tags to EAS tag makers, which will insert the chips into the EAS housing as part of their own production processes.