"No Shop" Is An Old Topic. The Japanese Retail Market Is Developing.

In order to alleviate the plagued shortage of Japanese retail personnel, the Ministry of economic and industrial development of Japan (the executive arm of Japan's economic and Industrial Development) proposed to vigorously build "unmanned stores", hoping to "tag" in Japan in 3 years, that is, before the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Put into use.

"No shop" is an old topic. The problem of cost is still to be solved.

Compared with traditional scanners, the RFID (RFID) recognizer can read information even if it does not read the electronic tags. That is to say, the shopping basket is placed on the scanning interface, so that all the commercial MPF can be calculated instantaneously.

In addition, barcodes can't be read if they are stained or damaged, and there is no such problem with electronic labels.

RFID also has dynamic read and write capacity, and barcode can only identify manufacturers and products, and can not identify individual goods.

For example, each type of juice box has the same bar code, and the electronic label can identify and manage which box of fruit juice will pass the shelf life first.

So this technology was first used in inventory management.

In 2004, Wal-Mart Store Inc, the world's largest retailer, asked its first 100 suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to send their pallets and boxes to its distribution center in 2005 before 1 months ago, and to put it into single products before January 2006.

At that time, it was considered a very advanced concept. Many suppliers thought it would be impossible to achieve large-scale use in such a short time.

Experts estimate that between 2005 and 2007, WAL-MART suppliers used 5 billion electronic tags each year to save $8 billion 350 million a year.

In the United States, electronic labels have been widely adopted by large retailers in inventory management.

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In the retail industry, reducing the development cost of electronic tags is the most urgent problem at present.

From the beginning, the price of the electronic tag is about 100 times that of the bar code. After entering the 21 century,

The cost finally dropped from $1-2 to 20-75 cents, and the change was mainly determined by the volume of purchases.

At present, the cost of 1 electronic tags reaches 10-20 yen (0.66-1.32 yuan).

The Japanese Ministry of production hopes to reduce its 1-2 yen to yen by 2030.

In order to achieve this goal, the Japanese Ministry of economy and Commerce has gathered all the industrial and lower level companies of retail enterprises, cash registers and label enterprises to establish special cooperative talks.

It is hoped that the Rosen convenience store will be used as a pilot unit, and then it will be extended to supermarkets and other retail merchants.

In 2007, under the auspices of the Ministry of economy and industry of Japan, the family convenience store had experimented with electronic labels in the Tokyo ikkshop, and more than 800 kinds of merchandise sold in the shop had been labeled with a 2 square square IC label in the production plant.

Compared with past practices, we can shorten about half of the closing time.

But for the convenience stores selling small items, the biggest problem is the cost.

If the goods are TV, DVD and video games, the cost of the electronic tags is not much, but if the small items such as toilet paper and toothbrushes are distributed, whether there is an electronic tag on the container and tray, the impact on the final sale cost is very large.

Besides, at present, there are no retailers in the world to realize real "unmanned stores", even if they possess advanced machines.

In Europe, America and Australia, there are one or two service personnel near the machine, which are not only self service outlets, but also a kind of invisible warning.