Starting next week, Wal-Mart is to begin selling garments that will contain radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. Wal-Mart insists that the RFID tags are vital to inventory management, but many groups have questions about privacy associated with the tags. Before now the RFID tags were restricted to use on pallets, rather than the items on the pallet. The Wall Street Journal have reported that JC Penney and Bloomingdale's are both looking at introducing RFID tags, while abroad, Metro in India, Tesco in the UK have already been issued directives to replace bar codes with RFID tags. The interesting aspect to Wal-Mart's adoption of RFID tags is to see if the RFID tags do mean increase productivity in the warehouse or another project that failed to live up to the hype.
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