According to this report from C|Net, Wal-Mart is going to miss it's much publicized first deadline for RFID integration with its suppliers. Drug suppliers were supposed to be delivering their wares in RFID-enabled containers to a Wal-Mart distribution center in Arkansas by the end of this month. While some suppliers have started tagging their pallets and cases, Wal-Mart has decided to push back the deadline to the end of June.
C|Net quotes Michael Liard, the senior analyst following radio tag technology at the Venture Development Corporation, a market research company in Natick, Mass: "Wal-Mart keeps cutting back on its requirements," he said "They're not ready; the industry's not ready; and the technology is not ready."
Posted by holtzman at March 29, 2004 10:59 AMI thought you might be interested in a blog we've just published on supermarkets and privacy at the Adam Smith Institute Blog.
Posted by: Alex Singleton at March 31, 2004 04:02 PMhttp://www.adamsmithblog.org/archives/000285.php
Posted by: Alex Singleton at March 31, 2004 04:03 PM