52.8 billion tags. One Year. RFID technology is no longer emerging — it has arrived.

by Ness Blackledge | Jun 16, 2026 | Retail, Guides

There is a number that stops people in their tracks when they first hear it. In 2024, RFID technology reached a new milestone: 52.8 billion RAIN RFID tag chips shipped globally in a single year. That figure, reported by the RAIN Alliance in February 2025, represents a...

The 7 questions that decide whether your RFID project succeeds

by Ness Blackledge | Jun 2, 2026 | Retail, Guides

Why do RFID projects fail? After more than 20 years deploying RFID across retail, pharma, manufacturing and logistics, Coriel Solutions CEO Philip Leslie has a clear answer, and it’s probably not what you’d expect. At the Zebra RFID Forum in Warsaw, Philip...

Digital Product Passports Are Coming: What Bulk Retail Leaders Need to Do Now (and Why RFID Makes It Easier)l

by Ness Blackledge | Apr 27, 2026 | Retail, Guides

For most bulk and large-format retailers, the honest answer to ‘are we ready?’ is that the data does not yet exist in the right form, in the right systems, or with the right level of item-level accuracy to meet what is coming. Digital product passport...

Proof of Delivery, the Pharmaceutical Way: How Chain-of-Custody Discipline Reduces Claims and Redeliveries in Furniture Retail

by Ness Blackledge | Apr 20, 2026 | Retail

RFID proof of delivery is an idea the pharmaceutical industry has already validated at scale, and one that bulk retail is only now beginning to adopt. Pharmaceutical supply chains do not tolerate ambiguity about where a product is, whose hands it has passed through,...

From Cost Centre to Control Tower: Where RFID Removes the Most Waste in Bulk Retail Operations

by Ness Blackledge | Mar 30, 2026 | Retail

In bulk retail, cost pressure rarely comes from one obvious source. It builds gradually across operations through inefficient processes, avoidable errors, and a lack of visibility that forces teams to rely on workarounds. Table of Contents FirstHeadingWhere...

RFID That Pays for Itself: The Three Revenue Levers Bulk Retailers Can Pull in 90 Days

by Ness Blackledge | Mar 24, 2026 | Retail

Bulk retail does not typically lose revenue because demand is weak. It loses revenue because the business cannot always fulfil what it has already sold. Table of Contents FirstHeadingBy the time an order is cancelled, the revenue has already been counted and then...