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Mercy Medical Center Preps RFID-Enabled Gift Shop In an effort to streamline inventory management, purchases, theft reduction and sales promotions, volunteers working at the store will apply EPC Gen 2 tags to items for sale, and read them using RFID-enabled terminals.

Portuguese Book Megastore Deploys Item-Level RFID System At its new store, Byblos is applying EPC Gen 2 tags to 250,000 books, games and videos to help customers locate and learn about their products, and to provide inventory and security applications.

Intermec Unveils Tag Reader-Writer; Celerant RFID-enables Its Retailer Software At the National Retail Federation's annual trade show, Intermec debuts a new EPC Gen 2 tag interrogator, while Celerant Technology adds RFID to its retail management system.

Sam's Club Tells Suppliers to Tag or Pay The Wal-Mart division has required its suppliers to apply RFID tags to pallets by Jan. 31, or it will charge a service fee to cover its cost of tagging the pallets itself.

Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers' prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.

Custom Cabinetmaker Deploying RFID to Track Production Northway Industries is employing EPC Gen 2 tags to improve managers' visibility and better identify delays, prioritize manufacturing and provide information to customers.

Tracking Totes With RFID Gives Co-Op Fast Results To cut down on theft of high-value items, a U.K. retailer cooperative has adopted RFID-enabled totes to improve shipment visibility.

Monsanto Hopes to Sow Benefits by Tagging Seed Packets The company's Agracetus division is set to launch a pilot next month to evaluate RFID for tracking cases of experimental seeds.

An Interview With Impinj CEO Bill Colleran Impinj CEO Bill Colleran spoke with RFID Journal Editor Mark Roberti about the state of the market for UHF EPC systems, trends for 2008 and Impinj's product plans.

Reliance Readies for RFID One of India's largest retailers has been testing RFID technology and is preparing applications to be used at its hypermarkets and supermarkets, as well as its electronics and convenience stores.