Walmart Finally Ramping Up its Item Level RFID Program?
Not long after the collapse Walmart’s program to have vendors put RFID tags at the carton level collapsed more than a decade ago, the retail giant seemed poised to roll-out item-level RFID to help it better manage in-store inventories, starting with the jeans category.
In fact, for a brief while some Walmart stores had warnings on store doors that RFID tags and readers were being used inside.
But like the case tagging program that preceded it, the item-level tagging program also went adrift.
10 years later, is RFID going to make a big comeback at Walmart?
A few weeks ago, stock market analyst Charles Anderson of financial firm Dougherty & Company issued a buy rating on leading RFID tag and reader maker Impinj, citing its own research that Walmart was going to launch an item-level tagging program for apparel goods later in 2020.
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