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The de facto standard for POSservice within most retailers is a 24/7,4 hour response across all locations, all lanes, all the time.
While there is mostcertainly a sense of security to be gained as well as a genuine need for someretailers to have a service provider that can respond to problems within 4hours of alerting them of an issue, the big question emerging now is: Is itnecessary that every issue, regardless of severity, be addressed within 4hours?
Retailers, including Dillard's, JCPenney, Bloomingdale's and American Apparel have publically talked about their RFID tagging efforts over the course of the last couple of years, with no particular public attention or concern. But when news was released that Walmart is RFID tagging garments, the media went nuts as claims ran the gamut from concerns about consumer privacy and surreptitious motives to RFID redo circa 2004.
