I work retail. On the clothing, the vast majority of the tags already are RFID, but for a different kind of automation - it’s by SKU or a similar number, and it’s already used for inventory counts and locating specific items for online orders. The other stuff isn’t because a lot more of that is manufactured by sometime other than the store and would require Coca Cola and so many others to cooperate and someone has to eat the cost of doing it and a twelve pack of coke doesn’t come with the issue of having to find a specific style and size of black thong located somewhere in a dozen boxes of underwear that includes five other extremely similar styles of black thong (true story btw, anyone know of less shit jobs hiring in the Twin Cities?).
Also, you would be astonished at the number of detached tags we find, if someone is shoplifting it’s incredibly common for people to rip the tags off. Probably because at least one retailer already does something like that.
I work retail. On the clothing, the vast majority of the tags already are RFID, but for a different kind of automation - it’s by SKU or a similar number, and it’s already used for inventory counts and locating specific items for online orders. The other stuff isn’t because a lot more of that is manufactured by sometime other than the store and would require Coca Cola and so many others to cooperate and someone has to eat the cost of doing it and a twelve pack of coke doesn’t come with the issue of having to find a specific style and size of black thong located somewhere in a dozen boxes of underwear that includes five other extremely similar styles of black thong (true story btw, anyone know of less shit jobs hiring in the Twin Cities?).
Also, you would be astonished at the number of detached tags we find, if someone is shoplifting it’s incredibly common for people to rip the tags off. Probably because at least one retailer already does something like that.