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Short answer: An RFID self-checkout or billing counter is designed to read all the UHF-tagged items in its tray or basket in one pass, without line of sight, and send the EPC codes to the POS to build the bill. Whether it works in a store depends les..

Short answer: The Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts (Third Amendment) Order, 2026 was issued on 3 August 2026 by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and comes into force on publication in the Official Gazette..

Short answer: Walmart has extended item-level RFID beyond apparel into its wider general-merchandise assortment, and supplier-facing guidance describes 2026 as the year full item-level compliance is expected across essentially all mandated categories..

Short answer: RFID does not belong on every SKU in a dark store, and any vendor who tells you otherwise is selling you tags you don't need. It earns its money on high-value items, returnable crates and cold-chain totes — anywhere a single miscount co..

Short answer: An EPC (Electronic Product Code) is the unique identifier written into an RFID tag's memory, and SGTIN-96 is the GS1 encoding scheme that retail RFID mandates in India normally ask for. It packs your GS1 Company Prefix, an item referenc..

Choosing between RFID and QR codes is one of the first questions Indian businesses ask when they start digitising inventory, assets or retail stock. This guide is for operations, warehouse and store managers in India who need a practical, no-hype com..

Retail shrinkage in India quietly eats into margins that are already thin, and most apparel and electronics stores discover the loss only at year-end stock-take. This guide is for retail owners, loss-prevention managers, and store operations teams wh..

Ask any jewellery showroom owner in India what keeps them awake at night, and two answers come up again and again: the daily stock count and shrinkage. A mid-sized showroom may hold 8,000 to 25,000 individual pieces — rings, chains, bangles, pendants..

If you run inventory for a retail chain in India, you already know the number that keeps you up at night: the gap between what your system says is on the shelf and what is actually there. Most Indian retailers relying on manual counts and barcode sca..

Short answer: The ten RFID applications that actually pay back in Indian retail are item-level stock counting, exit-gate loss prevention, fitting-room analytics, omnichannel fulfilment, self-checkout, shelf replenishment alerts, planogram compliance,..

Short answer: Item-level UHF RFID is the fastest way for an Indian apparel brand to move from 65–80% inventory accuracy to 99%+, and in 2026 it is a mature, off-the-shelf stack: EPC Gen2 garment inlays or hangtags encoded with GS1 SGTIN numbers, WPC-..