Kmart Australia changes store shelves for RFID rollout

Kmart Australia is changing in-store shelves to wood and using foam underlays in the back-of-house to improve the readability of radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags attached to apparel.

The retailer is in the process of tagging all apparel in its stores to be read by a robot called TORY, giving it a more accurate picture of in-store inventory.

RFID rollout manager Adam Gradon told an RFID Coalition meeting convened by GS1 Australia the retailer would have 100 percent of apparel tagged at vendor level and autonomous robots capturing data from the tags in all Australian stores by Christmas.