RFID Progress in Retail to Mid 2007

What does this mean for the RFID industry? The challenges faced by consumer packaged goods suppliers are not new, but as a result they are doing little more than slap and ship.

Sara Lee, with revenues of $12 billion, will use only about 50,000 RFID tags in 2007 to meet retailer mandates.

Even the largest CPG companies, such as Procter & Gamble, told IDTechEx that the number of tags it ordered in 2006 were just “several million”.