WIC EBT Feasibility Study and Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Materials Description
Unit Cost
1 Terminal Integration
$ 200.00
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ESTIMATED RETAILER COSTS FOR ONE YEAR OF E‐WIC OPERATIONS
On‐Line, Outsourced e‐WIC Off‐Line, Outsourced e‐WIC
Estimated
Quantity Estimated Cost
$ 7,200
36
On‐Line, In‐house e‐WIC
Estimated
Quantity Estimated Cost
$ 7,200
36
Estimated
Quantity Estimated Cost Comments
$
7,200
Annual turnover of 24 retailers per year.
Average of 1.5 lanes per store
2 WIC POS Terminal ‐ Smart Card
$ 750.00
$ ‐
$ ‐
36 $ 27,000
ECR System Purchase Support ‐ Mag Stripe,
Assumes 28% of new retailers will require
3 Outsourced
$ 10,250.00
2 $ 20,500
$ ‐
$ ‐ integration purchase support.
ECR System Purchase Support ‐ Mag Stripe, In‐
Assumes 28% of new retailers will require
4 House
$ 10,750.00
$ ‐
2 $ 21,500
$ ‐ integration purchase support.
Assumes 28% of new retailers will require
5 ECR System Purchase Support ‐ Smart Card $ 11,000.00
$ ‐
$ ‐
2 $ 22,000 integration purchase support.
6 $ ‐
$ ‐
$ ‐
7 $ ‐
$ ‐
$ ‐
8 $ ‐
$ ‐
$ ‐
9 $ ‐
$ ‐
$ ‐
10 $ ‐
$ ‐
$ ‐
TOTAL RETAILER COSTS FOR ONE YEAR OF E‐WIC OPERATIONS $ 27,700
$ 28,700
$ 56,200
NOTATION: In general, the stores requiring additional lanes are the chain stores, which will already have a POS terminal that is integrated with both their ECR and UPC scanners.
Therefore, additional lanes of POS configurations that include scanners are not included.
E‐WIC Cost‐Benefit Analysis
Retailer Costs for Implementation
and One Year of E‐WIC Operations Page 25