RFID Journal News Jul 26, 2019 - South African fashion retailer The Foschini Group (TFG) has launched a UHFRFID solution across 500 stores throughout a four-month period for its Markham brands, with plans to apply RFID to its products company-wide. TFG's goal is to bring its inventory accuracy to between 95 and 98 percent, thereby preventing out-of-stock events in stores, while enabling "buy online pick-up in store" (BOPIS) sales in the near future. The program was launched in February 2019, and the company expects to have the technology live at 1,000 stores by the end of this year.

Martin Kurc, TFG's senior operations business process manager, and Michelle McCann, the company's RFID project manager, presented their RFID technology strategy and experiences at RFID Journal LIVE! Retail at RetailX, held in Chicago in June 2019. The solution is provided by RIoT Insight. With the system in place, Kurc says, the company can count inventory at a 51,000-unit store within only a few hours, typically by a single employee, while the same process with barcode inventory-based counters took several days with a store's full team pitching in. For the full story, please click here: Retailer rolls out RFID across 1000 stores…