Article for chapert 9

http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/RFID/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198700170


I found an interesting article about RFID that relates to chapter 9 on a site provided by Information Week titled Wal-Mart Rethinks RFID. The article was a year old but is still relevant today as it explains why shopping at Wal-Mart has not yet undergone radical changes. Wal-Marts initial push into RFID was to force all suppliers to go RFID but that thinking has since changed. While some products benefit from the technology others do not. One statement where RFID does not work good on obscured cases in a pallet load, where wet, metallic, and glass items were involved, and that’s most of what is sold in a supermarket! The conclusion of the article was that RFID will be a benefit to inventory control for many products it is not a panacea and that each item must be reviewed and logical reasoning must be used before a decision to use RFID would be a prudent one.