Metro Pushes Back the Forecast

Forecasts are tricky. When I gave technology talks in 2000 my standing position was that most items in retail would be RF tagged by 2005. From the Cebit Trade show: "We will see RFID increasingly replace bar code for certain products but the technology won't be used to identify all products for a good 15 years or more," Gerd Wolfram, managing director of MGI Metro Group Information Technology, at a news conference on Wednesday in Hanover, Germany, ahead of the Cebit trade show..." ... Case-level tagging moves on at a strong pace. Metro RFID Newsletter.