Macy's to RFID-Tag 100 Percent of Items

Speaking at RFID Journal's second annual RFID in Retail and Apparel conference and exhibition, held in New York City, Bill Connell, Macy's senior VP of logistics and operations, revealed that his company plans to have 100 percent of all items in every store tagged by the end of 2017. "We still have a lot of work to do with our suppliers to get that joint commitment to apply tags at source," Connell said. "But we are fully prepped and continue to expand [our use of RFID]. We are now moving into additional use cases that are enabled because of RFID and, equally important—because of the availability of accurate information—on a very quick basis."