Home Channel News: Wal-Mart to expand radio tag rollout

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http://www.homechannelnews.com/story/index.htm?ID=3694&S=%2Fstory%2F

As of right now, they appear to be planning its use only to track product to case level, which makes a hell of a lot of sense. RFID would make receiving far easier and more accurate.

An example of why this is good: About two weeks ago, someone at my distribution center sent me six bundles of corner posts for chain link fence. All well and good, we sell those, but I didn't order six bundles of corner posts. I ordered six bundles of line posts, which have a smaller diameter than corner posts. Someone at the DC pulled the wrong posts, the guy unloading the truck saw "six bundles of posts" and checked the line off as "received," and now I'm sitting on about 600 corner posts because I already had plenty. RFID would have told the pullers in Charlotte, "this is the wrong thing," and I wouldn't currently be out of line posts.

If Wal-Mart re-institutes its plans to expand RFID to the floor, I'll let you know.