Rethinking Hard Tag Removal: How RFID Technologies are Complementary to EAS Hard Tags

• One retail customer that experimented with eliminating hard tags from its LP programs saw shrink more than double in test locations within one year.
• Another retailer saw shrink grow 40 percent to 70 percent in test departments in just seven weeks.
• A third retailer saw shrink increase by 40 percent in stores or categories where tags were removed — but not elsewhere in the store.

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