Now, this is some interesting insight. 15 years ago, “a large retailer” (Walmart-Sam’s Club) “shook up the supply chain industry” by announcing that all suppliers must provide RFIDs on their shipments. The early days, interestingly, largely turned out to be a failure due to the difficulty of the RFIDs communicating with the readers and the lack of features and functions of the software that processed the data. But now, RFIDs have advanced quite a bit and are quite a bit more durable for this application use, not to mention that the gear for reading the RFIDs is much better. One of the problems with the early RFIDs was that they weren’t sticking to the packages well enough!
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