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Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial

Posted by timothy on from the is-your-foil-hat-rfid-enabled dept.

EABird writes "CNet is reporting that Wal-mart has announced that they have canceled the RFID trial they were planning. Unfortunately, it looks like they are canceling it to focus on the use of the same technology in the warehouses and distribution centers instead, and waiting for the cost to come down before using the RFIDs in the stores."

2 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How that unfortunate? by wo1verin3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >>How that unfortunate? (Score:0, Flamebait)
    >>by Weeb (69841) on Wednesday July 09, @03:56PM (#6402515)

    Appearantly the wallmart greeters have mod points left.

  2. This will sound like flamebait... by notque · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What exactly is "unfortunate" about this? If it doesn't make it into a consumer product at the point of sale, what FSCKING harm is it doing? (as far as it goes, even if it DOES make it into a consumer product at the point of sale, if 1) they disclose that it's there and optionally 2) they make it removeable (part of packaging, on a removable tag, etc) I fail to see how this is a problem. If they disclose and don't make it removeable, I don't have to buy that product, do I?

    Do mods even read the article, the article summary, or the post they are moderating?

    This was moderated as Insightful. Heavily moderated as Insightful.

    The Summary was saying it was unfortunate that they are NOT deploying the new technology.

    You are upset at the summary for dissing the new technology. They are not.

    They are saying it's unfortunate that it isn't being deployed.

    How did this get modded up so high?

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