SPINNING UP A NEW RFID INVENTORY HANDLING STRATEGY FOR UPTOWN CYCLES As small merchants race to grow retail sales, many are finding RFID’s ability to streamline critical processes is blue ribbon worthy. Background Uptown Cycles is an independent retailer of high performance cycling equipment located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Challenge Uptown Cycles sought to harness the power of item-level RFID tagging to increase inventory accuracy, reduce out-of-stocks, enhance the customer experience and improve store security. Solution Uptown Cycles has deployed an RFID-enabled inventory management system from SMARTRAC, Freedom Shopping and Zebra Technologies at its Charlotte store. The company implemented the FLiP system in one week with no disruption to its normal operating processes. Using Freed

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