On her RIFD blog, Anita Campell has an interesting post on how suppliers are rushing to meet Wal-Mart's RFID requirements:
CIO Magazine's "Tag, You're Late" suggests that many suppliers subject to Wal-Mart's RFID mandate are not ready to meet the mega-retailer's January deadline. They'll do the least amount they can in the near term to meet Wal-Mart's requirements.I want to link to almost every post, as the entire blog is exceptionally well organized, prepared, and written.This is no surprise to most observers. But seeing the story being reported through anonymous sources is very telling about those sources' state of mind...
It's going to take longer for businesses to start seeing the benefits of RFID than some of the early, optimistic predictions suggested. And the path to realizing those benefits will be littered along the way with missed deadlines, rocky initiatives, and deflated expectations.
Posted by Kevin on December, 9 2004 at 11:09 AM
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Sterling Wright wrote:CIO Magazine is not accurate. "Anonymous" cannot be trusted as a reiable and respect source. I could use a six year old child as an anonymous source.
Of course, evil journalist often see such sources as such factual partly because of our altered standards: in seeking to master the art of quantitative advance the media has not only engendered qualitative deterioration but we have lost the ability to tell the difference between good and bad so long as there is more to sell.
-- December 9, 2004 04:58 PM ∞
Keivn Brancato wrote:Sterling,
One more month, and those of us outside of WM will know for real whether or not WM suppliers are ready for prime time, won't we?
--K
-- December 9, 2004 05:13 PM ∞
