Picture this: Automation in retail. Stores with no staff. No lines, registers or cashiers, only smartphones. Consumers can purchase mainly food products, but also cleaning items and cosmetics. Beverages of all kinds, sweets, healthy snacks, ready-to-eat meals as well as cooled dairy and even sausages are readily available. And every product is marked with a special RFID tag, enabling this futuristic reality, enabling an automated sales process.
“This is not science-fiction, it’s an existing shop in our country, Poland, with additional stores preparing to follow suit and open as well,” said Lukasz Chruslinski, sales manager
Mark Andy.
Monitoring the ebbs and flows of worldwide printing trends, Mark Andy has noticed an uptick in demand for printing presses with RFID modules.
A twist on the existing, mainstay RFID application has made a splash in the world of packaging and labels.
“Many ask ‘what’s next?’ in the printing industry, and with CAGR growth is
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