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- Feb. 6, 2014
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WalMart Provides Support to US Manufacturing; Retail Organized Crime Makes Major Hit; Bangladesh Apparel Makers Not Paying the Minimum ; RFID Tags Can be Seen Longer Distance |
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Percentage of apparel makers in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka that are not paying workers the increased minimum wage of $68 dollars per month, according to a study by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association. That new minimum wage was an increase of 77% when enacted in 2013, after news reports of worker mistreatment and several apparel factory disasters that killed a large number of workers and drew global scrutiny to the country’s work practices. In the port city of Chittagong, a mere 5% of factories could afford to pay the new minimum wage, the report noted. Retailers and brand companies have been leaving Bangladesh of late due to the negative attention and major political conflicts there, including violence, over the past year or so.
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Number of meters from which a passive RFID tag can be read with new technology that has been developed by a number of engineers at the University of Cambridge in the UK. That according to new reports this week after the breakthrough was described in an academic journal. That compares to a read range of just 2-3 meters for existing solutions. The researchers also claim the technology (which uses what is called a “distributed antenna system”) will improved read rates in some applications from 50% to 100%, meaning you could consistently read an entire shopping cart of tagged grocery goods or all cartons on a pallet in one pass, which isn’t possible today. More on this soon from SCDigest.
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