[josefx]

> Certainly not worth it for $10-20 item.

Really? Adding a unique ID at the point of entry costs that much?

[jazzyjackson]

I read it as "For items in the ten to twenty dollar range, its not worth adding a vendor label" and I don't suppose its the cost of the sticker, but how much longer does it take the warehouse worker to take it from a shelf and put it in a box if they add a sticker to every item? +5% ? +10% ? +100% ? (It takes very little time to put an item in a box, I could see adding a sticker doubling this...)

[SteveNuts]

I thought Walmart has been doing this with their vendors for many years

[FredPret]

These things can have complications when you take into account all the edge cases. And paying humans/robots to do anything really adds up.

But at their scale, maybe they found a plan that works!