NRF PROTECT 2026 is happening June 8 through 10 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas, and Retail Security Group will be on the floor at booth 611. If you are responsible for loss prevention, asset protection, or store operations, this is the one week of the year where the entire field is in one building, and we would like to see you while you are there.

Freshness. Inventory. Rotation. Waste. Nobody at Walmart is claiming RFID on a pack of ground beef will stop someone from walking it out the door. That distinction matters, because as RFID adoption accelerates across retail, a lot of store owners are quietly asking the wrong question: if I tag everything with RFID, do I still need EAS?

Summer is still a distinct shrink window for most retailers, and the reasons have nothing to do with whether national totals are trending up or down. They have to do with how stores actually run between Memorial Day and Labor Day.