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I want to take a quick minute on the blog to talk about one cool piece of technology that we will be using over at Pocket Squared that will really help us out a lot. I'm talking about RFID. If you don't know what that means, it is Radio Frequency Identification. I am actually a radio jock myself, and if you are involved in radio also than Radio Frequency Identification is a very different thing.

The RFID that I'm talking about is a small tag, I mean TINY, that replaces all the bar codes that we might have had on our products. There are many advantages to using RFID over bar codes. One example is that when doing inventory we wouldn't need to scan each product one at a time, all we would have to do it wave the scanner near by and we would know everything that was there. This evidences not just the lack of a line of sight requirement for the RFID, but also that it can scan a multitude of items at the same time.

At Pocket Squared we love staying ahead of the curve when it comes to our technology. RFID does have a bad reputation right now, but as long as we are still only an online store, some of the public's hesitations will be taken care of. People are worried about incorrect readings of RFID tags at the checkout line. Some people are worried about the lack of knowledge that we have about RFID because its still a developing technology. The good thing though is that Pocket Squared will only be using RFID tags in the place where we store the products, it will be a contained area that will allow us to careful monitor its use.

Thats all for now gang,

Drew