RFID Market Forecasts 2009-2019

The tagging of pallets and cases remains to be a failure, with only 225 million passive UHF tags used for this application in 2009—a far cry from the 35 billion tags that one consumer goods company alone predicted that it would be buying in 2009, when they presented at an event in 2003. The main reasons for this have been technical failures (poor read rates with high moisture content and metal products), lack of infrastructure and lack of mutuality of benefit between retailers and the rest of the supply chain. Work is still preserving however.