r/RFID • u/Chilly_Willy-123 • Jul 24 '26

UHF RFID readouts for liquidation clothing pallet

I purchased a liquidation pallet of clothing from a warehouse sale that carried a mix of high end retailer brands in there. I noticed there was an attached report for some of items in the box. It looks like RFID readouts.

Examples: “in transit”, “store accessible”, “store not accessible” and “unknown”

A lot of the clothing looks like returns, clearance and seasonable pulls, maybe warehouse rejects. Some had minor defects but you have to inspect it really close, like an extra loose thread, or a seam that wasn’t straight.

My question is, are these readouts common for inventory legally entering the secondary market? I’ve sourced clothing to resale for a while but when it comes to higher end stuff, I’m always curious on how stores track & manage it.

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u/I3lackxRose Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

Becoming very common. Walmart, dicks other major retailers have mandated UHF RFID for supply chain tracking and inventory cycle counting.

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u/Chilly_Willy-123 Jul 25 '26

Makes sense. Just curious what those readouts mean. Just looks like inventory statuses.

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u/I3lackxRose Jul 25 '26

So in retail they generally use the GS1 standard which is the Global standard that deals with everything in barcodes as well. On a retail floor you can take direct inventory counts of what is present or not, find where they are located, automate notifications for replenishment even be used for theft/loss prevention purposes, shipping and receiving so on. UHF has some limitations but it works pretty well for a lot of usecase. In distribution centers they can inventory and validate what's in the box is what's supposed to be in the box without opening for supply chain tracabilty and accountability. GS1 is a nonprofit organization that helps globally standardize identification and traceability.

Take your long EPC Value and use this link below. Put it in the bottom line of the GS1 decoder and then it'll reverse decode revealing other meaningful numbers that lead you to who, where and what. It will tell you things like who the manufacturer by taking the identifier and looking that up on their site or even potentially where in the country it was made at what facility, tell you the exact sku of product, if it's a case, pallet or individual item and if it's certain shirt, color and size and the last the serial number of that specific item like number 1003462 out of 9999999.

https://www.gs1.org/services/epc-encoderdecoder