RFID pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart is speeding on with its deployment of the track-and-trace technology. The new deployments will all use Gen2 tags, with all Wal-Mart's other RFID-enabled locations - which use first generation chips...
US retail giant Wal-Mart's controversial RFID tracking tag rollout across its supply chain has been hit by delays and logistical problems, and the company's UK subsidiary Asda has confirmed it now has no plans to take the technology forward either.
Those companies are among the nearly 140 Wal-Mart suppliers working toward fulfilling the retailer's RFID directive. Issued last year, the directive calls for Wal-Mart's largest suppliers to attach RFID tracking "tags" on shipments sent to several...
The newly appointed CIO at retail giant Wal-Mart has been singing the praises of RFID. Linda Dillman, the company's previous CIO, had overseen Wal-Mart's ambitious RFID plans but moved to become the retailer's executive VP of risk management and...
Uber-retailer Wal-Mart - which mandated its suppliers to start using RFID from the start of this year - has released the first results of how the tracking technology has affected its business. Wal-Mart hired researchers from the University of...
According to one source, Wal-Mart will spend about two-thirds of its RFID budget on readers and the installation of them in more than 100 distribution centres and thousands of stores. The retailer has asked them to purchase millions of RFID tags...