Thousands of SCDigest subscribers have viewed our full video reviews of NRF 2015 Day 1 and Day 2, which featured a number of cool and interesting new solutions. SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore also wrote a Trip Report of the NRF show, largely focusing on the big picture of jey trends and themes.

As we have done the last couple of years, this year we once again break out the cool new solutions we found and covered into individual videos, so readers can select to view just the brief solution summaries (generally 2-3 minutes) that are of interest to them. Last week, we presented just those solutions covered from Day 1. This week we have the solutions we found on Day 2.

First, however, we start with SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore's interview with JDA CEO Bal Dail, who delivered the Sunday keynote address to some 5000 attendees, on the theme of "Bricks are the New Black." That in great summary says that stores still have a vital role to play in a retailer's success in this omni-channel world - yet, they have to adapt as well. Watch Dail summarize his keynote presentation:

JDA CEO Bal Dail Summarizes his Keynote Address

Impinj recently released its "xArray" wide-area RFID readers, which can read tags continuously over some 1500 square feet. That is generating a lot of interest from retailers adopting item-level RFID programs - multiple systems of course can be stitched together to cover any size retail format.

In the video below, Gilmore describes this wide-area technology, followed by an Impinj executive on the need and challenges of reading inbound and outbound cartons with tagged products inside.

Impinj's xArray System and Thoughts on Validating Cases of Tagged Products.

French RFID system provider Tagsys has a different approach to wide-area reading, although oddly it didn't want to talk much about it despite featuring in their system in its NRF booth. That approach, however, is summarized in the video below.

Tagsys' Different Approach to Wide-Area RFID Reading

Digimarc was back at NRF for a second year, with a unique and innovative approach to embedding bar codes in images - whether that's a picture in a magazine or a product's packaging, in a way that can be read by an image scanner (POS or on a smart phone), yet they are invisible to the human eye.

Grocery chain Wegmans has embedded Digimarc's in all its packaging for private label goods in order to speed scanning by a cashier or customer - you don't have to find the bar code, since there are Digimarc bar codes embedded in all four sides of a package. Very cool - and we wonder if there are other potentiall supply chain applications.

Digimarc's Invisible Bar Codes Embedded In Images and Packaging

(Supply Chain Trends and Issues Article - Continued Below)