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The Impact of RFID on retailers. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been in use since the 1940's by the US military to distinguish friendly aircraft from enemy aircrafts (Mayfield 2002) It has been in commercial use since the early 1980's (Jones et al 2004) Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is the generic name to technologies that uses radio waves to identify items ( Jones et al 2004) It is a small tag containing integrated circuit chip and an antenna and has the ability to respond to radio waves transmitted from the radio in order to send, process and store information (wu et al 2005) The RDID technology consists of three basic components a tag a reader and a computer (wu et al 2005) The tag contains unique identification of the product to which it is attached to, the reader emits and receives radio waves to read the information that is stored in...

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