Twenty years ago the barcode transformed shopping for customers – with improved availability and pricing accuracy, and with greater efficiency came lower prices. Barcodes made life easier for our staff, freeing them up to spend more time with customers.

The Radio Barcode is the next big thing.

At the most basic level Radio Barcodes have the potential to give us accurate and near real-time visibility of all the products we sell, right down to the individual item. That visibility will be throughout our supply chain from the factory to the store. Much of this can be achieved without human intervention – imagine, no more stock counting, no more checking deliveries at the back door.

The impact to the supply chain, to our stores, our staff and most importantly to our customers will be enormous, and all for the better.

Here at Tesco we believe that we are at a point where we can start to realise some of the benefits of Radio Barcodes. We have been testing the technology for more than two years thanks to our involvement with the EPCglobal centre, which has been responsible for driving standardisation and cost reduction. Following much internal analysis, research and trials we now understand how Radio Barcodes can be used to benefit our customers. We have developed business cases and thanks to our trials understand that the technology actually works! We have now entered into partnerships with leading Radio Barcode technology companies to help us harness its potential in real-life applications.

The future is coming!

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