The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of
RFID practices on retail supply chain performance. To our knowledge,
this is the first study to provide an analytical model that uses
supply chain performance indicators as dependent variables in a
hierarchical regression equation with RFID variables as independent
variables on a global scale. Hierarchical regression models
permit the examination of a set of variables in a step-wise way
by producing three models (control, independent, interaction) that
separately estimate the contribution of the variables and their
interactions.