PCWorld: RFID – Should This Be On Your Tech Roadmap?
Attaching RFID ‘tags’ to items in a retail store or warehouse can simplify and streamline inventory-related applications and more. But is it ready for SMB prime time?
“For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.
No one–not even Wal-Mart, which famously kicked off its crusade toward retail RFID nirvana in 2003–ever said retail RFID projects were going to be easy.”
