Walmart Suppliers RFID Progress Slow ...

Sarah Lacy, for Business Week, reports that Walmart's suppliers are slow to adopt RFID technology in RFID: Plenty of Mixed Signals. These suppliers are leaving money on the table by only implementing slap-and-ship RFID methods to comply with Walmart mandates, instead of embracing RFID technology into their own supply chains to drive operational efficiencies. However, some suppliers are getting involved in the first wave of testing with Walmart, even though they are not in the required list of suppliers ...

Have heard from some of these suppliers that they are getting involved early, because they believe that Walmart will provide the most robust support in the first wave of RFID implementation, which validates some of these findings ...