The Boekhandels Groep Nederland is starting the use of RFID to facilitate the tracking of special order books. The retail chain is looking at item level tagging as the next step. The book store will deploy RFID interrogators at two shelves which currently have RFID tags on books. The readers and shelf antennas are provided [...]

The Boekhandels Groep Nederland is starting the use of RFID to facilitate the tracking of special order books. The retail chain is looking at item level tagging as the next step.

The book store will deploy RFID interrogators at two shelves which currently have RFID tags on books. The readers and shelf antennas are provided by Vue Technology, will allow BGN to capture the location of each specially ordered book stored on an RFID-enabled shelf.

According to BGN CIO Jan Vink:

By adding shelf-edge technology, the stores will be able to pinpoint, in real time, the exact shelf on which an item is located in the special-orders section. BGN may eventually install shelf-edge technology in other sections of the stores as well, explains BGN CIO Jan Vink, but for now, the company considers it good business sense to begin with special-order books—items not normally stocked on site, ordered upon the request of individual customers—by making those books easy to locate in a hurry. BGN sells about 100 to 150 special-order items per month in each store.

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