The Booming RFID Business in 2010

In the case of retailing that means reducing stockouts though many other benefits also accrue. For example, over 100 retail chains now require suppliers to tag apparel and both they and their suppliers benefit from this, resulting in hundreds of millions of RFID labels being used yearly for such purposes. Just one Army base in the USA, Lackland Airforce base in Philadelphia, is processing about five million items of tagged apparel yearly.