Several brands and retailers are piloting two versions of the new tag for food, beauty goods and other products that are difficult to tag. Both are sized to fit on products with small or narrow footprints.

We recommends the tags for tracking such on-metal items as tools, electronics and other small or metal- or liquid-based products and surfaces.

Retailers and brands have already been applying and reading RFID tags on larger, high-value items, including apparel and shoes, but some of the more difficult use cases continue to involve perfumes and cosmetics, simply due to the size of their packaging and presence of metal and liquids. While food markets and other retailers are seeing benefits in tagging many of their products, a bottle of soda can be as difficult for tag transmission as the foil packet on a cereal bar.

Traditionally, lower-value goods, such as food and beverages, have not been economically feasible. However, the dropping price of RFID tags, the growing number of tags being read for other stock-keeping units (SKUs) and the retail industry's transition toward automated purchasing are leading companies to consider tagging these more challenging products. Now, These new on-metal tags will help to enable that transition.

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Tags: Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management, Labeling, Packaging, Retail, Supply Chain