Abstract: A retail promotion validation engine may include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive information indicative of a location of a consumer relative to a commercial environment, determine a product associated with the location, perform an inventory check to determine whether the product is in stock proximate to the location, and send promotional material to the consumer based on the inventory check.

Abstract: A system may include a plurality of wireless communication tags associated with corresponding items at a location, a counting device configured to communicate with the tags to perform a counting operation associated with inventory information related to the items, and a count controller operably coupled to the counting device. The count controller may receive information indicative of count cycle frequency factors and may be configured to determine a count cycle frequency to be employed at the counting device. The count controller may receive updated count cycle frequency factors. The count cycle frequency may be updated based on the updated count cycle frequency factors.

Abstract: A method of bulk encoding tags may include obtaining tag identification information from a tag associated with a product, scanning a product label to obtain product identification information of the product, associating product identification information and the tag identification information in a database, reading electronic product code (EPC) information associated with the tag to determine the tag identification information, confirming the association between the tag identification information and corresponding product identification information in the database, and overwriting the EPC information with a combination of the tag identification information and the product identification information.