Wal-Mart declares first months a SUCCESS
When Wal-Mart announced on Jan. 11 at ProMat in Chicago that 57 suppliers were then shipping RFID-tagged cases and pallets, eyebrows were raised. The retailer has been under increasing scrutiny by the growing RFID industry and the business press, with rumors of poor compliance, low read-rates and broken machines.
Wal-Mart considers the first two months of RFID deployment a success; and Simon Langford, its manager of global RFID strategy, believes there is much misinformation surrounding one of the most watched technology deployments of this new century. “Everyone thought we told all suppliers they had to be ready Jan. 1,” Langford mused. “Nobody could do that—it’s a holiday!”
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