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Staples Business Depot Sees Positive Results from Active Tag Test Although the Canadian company found that the RFID system slashed out-of-stock levels and increased sales, it has yet to determine whether those benefits outweigh the costs of deploying the system chain-wide.

RFID Snuffs Out Inefficiencies at Tobacco Plant At its cigarette factory in Calcutta, ITC passive RFID tags help monitor tobacco moisture content at each stage of production.

Ohio Boutique Takes a Unique Approach to RFID Clothing merchant Industry Standard uses the technology to support social retailing, which lets shoppers confer with friends before making buying decisions.

Sonrai RFID-Enables Its Trash Compacters Retailers can use the RFID tag reads as a final data point indicating goods have been received and put out on the sales floor.

RFID Journal, AIM Europe Produce Auto-ID Seminar At the third annual RFID Journal LIVE! Europe conference and exhibition, AIM Europe will host preconference sessions to educate attendees about a range of auto-ID topics, including how to use bar codes and RFID in tandem.

RFID Gains Traction at John Deere The heavy-machinery manufacturer is using EPC Gen 2 tags to aid quality control, monitor work-in-process and streamline production.

Philip Morris Intl. Seeks to Make Serialized Bar Codes Work With EPC Network The ability to use EPC infrastructure, the cigarette maker says, will help it stop illegal trade and ensure the authenticity of its brands.

European EPC Competence Center to Provide Training at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2007 The EECC, founded by GS1 Germany, Deutsche Post World Net, Karstadt Warenhaus and Metro Group, will share experiences gained by these companies over the past four years with attendees looking to leverage EPC/RFID technologies.

Wal-Mart, Sam's Club Push RFID Further Along Carolyn Walton, Wal-Mart's VP of information technology, revealed three new initiatives that are part of what she called a "change of focus" in the retailer's RFID program.

Alien Adds Five Products to Gen 2 Portfolio Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.