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...Arizona a busy mom with kids charges fast food to her American Express by flashing a key fob in front of a plastic box. In London the same technology helps retailer Marks & Spencer track gourmet dinners to prevent spoilage. The U.S. military used it in Iraq to electronically search supplies and keep tabs on hospital patients. In Singapore and Helsinki DHL tested it in anticipation of tracking the 160 million packages it ships annually. And in Arkansas the world's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, is telling its top 100 suppliers to put it on all cases and pallets...
...Europeans have made the biggest investments. In England retailer Marks & Spencer has spent the past two years rolling out RFID tracking of its gourmet take-home foods, supplied to 200-plus stores by 300 providers. The RFID tags are embedded in some 3.5 million food trays and dollies, allowing the company to track the trays and reducing employee hands-on time 80%. While setup costs for a large company can run from $100 million to $200 million, the efficiencies can amount to 1% of revenues (that's theoretically around $100 million at M&S), says TI's Slinger, which supplied...
Hoff’s tally came with just 17:06 remaining in regulation and was assisted by senior Spencer George...
Wanting to get more specifics about my new career opportunities, I called Richard A. Smith, a senior recruiter for Spencer Stuart and a co-author of The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers. Smith thought having my weekly column on the back page of Entertainment Weekly replaced two months ago by Stephen King's might not be permanent. "I don't think the door is closed. As companies start staffing up again, organizations are saying, 'Who were the best people we had and let's get them back,'" he said. "You were beat out for brand recognition over real talent...
...HUPD officers observed a group acting suspiciously on Anderson Bridge and arrested Cambridge resident Leroy Spencer, 27, Cambridge resident Christopher D. Toppi, 22, and Edward P. Frazer, 20, of Bellingham, on outstanding warrants...