August 15, 2006
Wal-Mart Moving Ahead With RFID Plans
Last week, Wal-Mart's new CIO, Rollin Ford, talked about RFID at the NRFTech (National Retail Federation Tech) conference near San Diego. While less than 10% of their 6600+ worldwide stores are RFID-equipped, they do plan to continue with their RFID rollout. [via Extreme RFID]
This is despite all the little indicators that suggest that maybe their plans aren't going so well, primarily because their suppliers are lagging behind in implementing RFID due to the cost and the lack of incentive, from their point of view. (A Forrester Research report from 2004 says that the start-up cost is about $9M for the typical Wal-Mart supplier.)
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