November 17, 2004
Many Suppliers Won't Make Wal-Mart RFID Deadline
With Wal-Mart's January 1 deadline given to their top 100 suppliers to implement RFID looming just weeks away, ABI Research is estimating that only 30 will be compliant by then.
According to TelecomWeb:
According to Erik Michielsen, ABI Research's director of RFID and ubiquitous technologies, the fact that only around 30 percent of Wal-Mart's suppliers will have done full-scale RFID implementations by New Year’s Day isn't the issue. What's really important, he believes, is what the other 70 percent will do during the course of the coming year.
In a new RFID study produced by ABI, Michielsen says he doesn't believe that lack of money for integration trials has been the problem for most of these laggards.
Read more: Why Wal-Mart May Have To Scale Back RFID Plans
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