Simon Langford, Wal-Mart's manager of RFID strategies, says the retailer is on schedule to meet its goal of receiving pallets and cases with RFID tags in January.
The CIOs of Wal-Mart and Target will sit down with senior executives from Kimberly-Clark and Hewlett-Packard to discuss RFID at Retail Systems 2004/VICS Collaborative Commerce event in Chicago in May.
The retailer today begins tracking pallets and cases of product with EPC tags at one of its distribution centers and seven of its stores in Texas as part of a test being conducted with eight suppliers.