Wal-mart spending Billions for RFID [View All]

[Deja Q]

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5104493.html


The system is based on a technology known as radio frequency identification (RFID), a new breed of computer network designed to track the location of everyday objects such as razors and shoes by embedding them with special microchips. Wal-Mart has enlisted its top 100 merchandise suppliers to participate in the high-profile project, one of the first and largest of its kind in the retail industry.

A Wal-Mart representative refused to comment on the company's spending plans.

Wal-Mart's multibillion budget is an unofficial estimate that the company has discussed privately with other companies involved in the project, said the sources, who wished to remain anonymous.

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Surely the current system is good enough as razors and shoes can be packaged with the current theft alarm chip enclosed?

This is the same franchise that treats its employees like shit and treats the customers even worse as they have 1 security camera per 8' of ceiling space. (the WM closest to me has over 100 cameras above the sales floor! One day I went in, did not take a basket, picked up a couple of things which were not easy to carry. I went to get the third item. Put down the other two and picked up the third and then I heard over the PA "Code 6 in Aisle 12", which was where I was at. My coat was fully zipped, they thought I was a freakin' shoplifter. Obviously I make a conscious habit of not shopping there and for any number of reasons, but when I go in the store I feel like a crook and I am not. So fuck 'em. If they want to be a bunch of fascists and consider every customer a criminal, they can rot in hell with Satan himself bathing the CEO's testicles in gasoline and lighting them on fire...)

While they're at it, they should make all WM employees wear hats with hidden cameras in them and have them walk around for complete coverage... x(


(my post on zdnet is slightly altered, mark II, and cleaner... thjough I added 'anti-american' along with 'fascist' in the subject title... heh.)