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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (47428)	12/15/2005 4:53:17 PM
From: anachronist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

RFID tags are applied at the pallet level or case level currently. A lot of suppliers are pushing back hard, but it is seen as inevtiable. SKU level RFID tags are coming, but are several years away. At a cost of $.50 per tag (which is the cost currently), immediate implementation would bankrupt whole industries. It is hoped that tag production will realize economies of scale before they are required at the SKU level. But the main point is that the suppliers have neither the capability nor desire to associate a purchase with an actual consumer. When you are talking about hundreds of millions of POS transactions, the individual data points become meaningless.