Retailing giant Wal-Mart is expected this week to ask its top 100 suppliers to begin using the chips to help track inventory by 2005. Ed Rerisi, director of research at Allied Business Intelligence (ABI), said the RFID market is more than just tags...
Wal-Mart, the behemoth of the supermarket world, owner of Asda and beloved of (some) Americans, went quite the other way, first announcing that it had canned its plans to roll out RFID in stores, then changing its mind and deciding to spend $3bn...
And with heavy hitters in the retail and consumer packaged goods industries, such as Wal-Mart and Gillette, already pushing partners to develop RFID capabilities, adoption of the tools appears inevitable.
Wal-Mart, which opened its own test centre earlier this year, is asking its own top 100 suppliers to deliver pallets of products armed with RFID tags by 2005. However, while Wal-Mart, rival retailer Target and even the US Department of Defense have...
The main beneficiaries of the RFID shopping spree are hardware suppliers, including Intermec Technologies, Matrics (a division of Symbol Technologies) and Alien Technology, Romanow said. Issued last year, the directive calls for Wal-Mart's largest...
In addition to the military, such retail giants as Target and Wal-Mart Stores are incorporating RFID into their distribution centres to streamline the flow of merchandise. Starting today, certain suppliers to the US Defense Department must include...