Wal-Mart Remains on Track
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.
Wal-Mart, Target to Discuss EPC
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.
RFID In It For The Long Run
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—Details the implementation and success of sponsor Hewlett Packard’s pervasive RFID solution at the Boston Marathon.Read the article at InformationWeekCell Phones and RFID: Two Great Tastes Together
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—Most of the recent RFID talk focuses on retail and the supply chain. This interesting piece considers other innovations made possible by the inevitable fusion of RFID and cellular technology.Read the...Library tenders for Rfid
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—Public libraries is one of the more active arenas for the implementation of RFID. A library planned for construction in New Zealand may include a complete RFID system, and libraries around the country...Business Technology: Fighting For Survival, Or Global Opportunity?
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—A consideration of what is at stake with the Wal-Mart RFID mandate and the opportunity it represents for businesses even remotely involved with the retail gorilla.Read the article at...Tracking the RFID debate
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—Are the benefits of RFID technology really that much better than those of the bar code, as the current RFID hype suggests? This author isn’t so sure, even if the price of RFID tags dips below five...Are You Aiming Too Low with RFID?
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—Asserts that many companies are going about their RFID implementations backwards: Instead of using RFID as an opportunity to comprehensively review and possibly redefine their supply chains, companies...RFID everywhere: From amusement parks to blood supplies
This article was originally published by RFID Update.May 3, 2004—A run-down of some of the RFID applications already in use.Read the article at Network World Fusion
Wal-Mart Begins RFID Rollout
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.