The Suit Company Ginza RFID’d All Suits
The Suits Company is a popular apparel store that sells young men's suits. Their Ginza store started putting RFID tags on all 2,400 suits on their sales floor. The tags are now used to provide product-relevant information (why their suits are unique and good, and so on) and availability in the storeroom.
The company has been using a similar RFID system for men's shoes (it sounds similar to the ones that are used at Mitsukoshi stores) and consequently they reduced the number of salespeople at a shoe shop (there used to be 3 salespeople. now there are only 2. )
Original Source: RFID in Japan
Dr. Shin'ichi Konomi has been RFID in Japan's contributor since April of 2004. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan and was a postdoctoral research scientist at Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany. He has been building and testing various ubicomp applications using RFID since 1998. Shin'ichi often collaborated with his colleagues in Japan, co-organizing International Workshops on RFID (2004) and playing a role as a liaison for ALAN-K Project, an international project for introducing a new computer-supported learning environment for Japanese kids (2002). He also writes articles on technology and media arts in Japan for we-make-money-not-art.com.