Wal-Mart cancels RFIDs
Filed in archive on July 10, 2003
I have not covered the field of RFID until now. This will change with some more researched articles in near future.
Meanwhile Wal-Mart has surprisingly stopped experiencing in the field with RFIDs. Metro has opened it's test store some month back. Has anyone here firsthand experience with this store concept?
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Response from:
Stefan Smalla
(07/10/03 3:37am)
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TJ
(07/11/03 2:25am)
True Stefan. My writing is a bit misleading indeed. It's not stopping all field tests, just the consumer products.
Your speculation seems well grounded. Have you seen Joi's super small RFIDs http://joi.ito.com/moblog/archives/005556.html.http://joi.ito.com/moblog/archives/005556.html.">http://joi.ito.com/mo
blog/archives/005556.html. Do you have a price tag for the actually used ones?
Your speculation seems well grounded. Have you seen Joi's super small RFIDs http://joi.ito.com/moblog/archives/005556.html.
blog/archives/005556.html.
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My speculation on the reasons: RFIDs are too expensive right now. Thus, they decided to ride the cost curve a little with a wide deployment among suppliers (which requires less RFID numbers per product because the tags are deployed on the multi-product boxes) and go into consumer deployment once prices are up to snuff.