Wal-Mart Pushing Suppliers For RFID

Weather Storm brings us an InformationWeek article about Wal-Mart's push for suppliers to RFID tag their product shipments. Wal-Mart seems to have lost patience in waiting for its suppliers to adopt the inventory tracking initiative. From InformationWeek: "The retailer says that beginning Jan. 30, it will charge suppliers a $2 fee for each pallet they ship to its Sam's Club distribution center in Texas that doesn't have an RFID tag. The charge is to cover Sam's Club's cost to affix tags on each pallet, says a Wal-Mart spokesman. The retailer hasn't taken such a strong-arm approach yet with the more than 15,000 suppliers that still haven't complied with its request to tag pallets and cases headed for its Wal-Mart stores. Instead, it seems focused on turning its 700-store Sam's Club warehouse-outlet division into an example of RFID supply chain technology in action, down to requiring item-level RFID in 22 distribution centers by 2010."

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[FudRucker]

i recently purchased a bicycle (mountain bike with 26 inch tires) for 30 dollars on clearance, and the new bikes being restocked were all expensive (close to 200 dollars) than the previous pricing scheme which used to be just under 100 dollars, normally i avoid purchasing Chinese made products but for 30 bucks i bet China and/or Wal-Mart took a loss, so if you want a bike for yourself or someone else (kid's birthday) now is a good time to look for the clearance items on the bicycle rack next to the toy dept...