Wal-Mart workers to remove, turn off freight tracking tags

Cybergal · Apr 23, 2008

Wal-Mart workers to remove, turn off freight tracking tags
4/23/08

LITTLE ROCK Wal-Mart Stores Inc. promised state legislators Tuesday that any product with a radio tag would be clearly labeled, as the retail giant tries to put the inventory-tracking devices on all products sold at Sams Clubs by 2010.

Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, wants to place scanners reading the tags as they come off delivery trucks and head out to customers at the warehouse stores, said Simon Langford, director of retailers electronic product code strategies. Langford said readers would even be placed by box crushers and trash compactors.

The tags, installed by manufacturers on every pallet and containers, would allow the worlds largest retailer to quickly track back any defective or harmful product to its source, Langford said. The tracking also will help Wal-Mart cut down on theft, which an analyst suggested could have been as high as $3 billion last year. The companys overall revenues last year hit $378.8 billion.
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Crainial · Apr 23, 2008

i hope i dont have to haul anymore of their fright

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