January 03, 2005
Gallo, Ace Hardware to Implement RFID
With Wal-Mart's major RFID deadline passing this month, other companies are beginning to jump on the RFID bandwagon, including E. & J. Gallo Winery and Ace Hardware, both of which will begin testing later this year. Gallo is one of approximately 200 consumer product makers that will be involved in the second Wal-Mart compliance wave. They are to be RFID-compliant by Jan 2006. Gallo's and Ace Hardware's RFID plans are profiled in this article on Information Week:
Yet the complicated issues ahead for Gallo show why the next wave of companies to work with RFID won't face a simple matter of riding the early adopters' technology coattails. In fact, it's only in the coming year that companies will have the technology, tools, and experience to start making marked progress toward the business innovation RFID promises.
Wal-Mart's and Metro's initiatives got under way just as EPCglobal Inc., the industry group developing RFID standards, was finalizing its first global specifications.
Read more: RFID: The Plot Thickens
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