According to professional report by China General Chamber of Commerce, there was 181 billion RMB lost of retail industry in 2016, from stolen. And the loss rate increased year by year on these 5 years. The traditional way to prevent damage has been unable to save the problem of retail damage, technical upgrading is emergent without delay.
With the progress of retail technology, many big retailers have used some modern anti-damage measures, like Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS), CCTV, and installation of cash registers and closed-circuit television monitoring system combined cash register monitoring system (POS/EM). The EAS system is set at the key position of mall, could directly detected in the goods on the effective anti-theft labels, so that sound and light alarm.
RFID technology has brought new changes to retail damage.Using RFID technology, for the goods attached with RFID tags will be able to clearly understand the way of goods theft, type, quantity, loss of time and other information. After the adoption of RFID technology on the goods, managers can quickly cycle inventory, real-time tracking of goods. Staff only in the Treasury and sales areas were circulating inventory, monitoring real-time inventory, the difference can be found in the operation of goods in the process of change, and clearly understand the loss of goods.
To achieve commodity traceability, reduce natural wear and tear. Low temperature fresh food is easy to degenerate, the use of active temperature shelf labels can perceive the temperature, real-time accurate price at the same time. With the handheld RFID reader, when the temperature is high or low, the system that Will be prompted by the background management system, SMS prompts or tag signal prompts the staff to promptly adjust the temperature, to avoid the refrigerator due to deterioration of food caused by the loss of treatment.
RFID in the retail industry can achieve the function is not just loss prevention, but also can improve the efficiency of the supply chain, improve the quality of the store and so on. At present, RFID to the retail industry to bring the technical premium has begun to show, many retail companies began to proceed with the layout of RFID systems.
