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The Trend of Large Retailers Implementing RFID Technology Store-Wide

Join Datascan as we discuss how large scale retailers implementing RFID technology has impacted the retail industry as a whole, including small businesses. Walmart is one of the biggest retailers in the world. They’ve had a ton of success with their apparel. Over eighty percent of their apparel is tagged with RFID, and Walmart has…

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Join Datascan as we discuss how large scale retailers implementing RFID technology has impacted the retail industry as a whole, including small businesses.

Walmart is one of the biggest retailers in the world. They’ve had a ton of success with their apparel.

Over eighty percent of their apparel is tagged with RFID, and Walmart has had so much success with this implementation that they are expanding by adding RIFD into other item categories, like sporting goods and electronics, and even toys..

Other types of retailers are also benefiting from this. When retailers mandate that their suppliers to tag at the source level for them, there becomes a certain threshold where the supplier starts to tag all goods for efficiency, and then experiences these benefits on their own supply chain. Other retailers who procure some of these goods from various suppliers are then able to leverage that in their own retail environment as well.

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Everyone knows Walmart's one of the biggest retailers in the world. They've had a ton of success with their apparel. Program over eighty percent of all their apparel is tagged with RFID in their stores and had so much success that they're expanding into other categories. Right? So they've moved into sporting goods. They've moved into electronics. Into toys, actually, into car batteries and tires, which is pretty interesting. Yeah. So you're starting to see a lot of other types of retailers, right, that are benefiting from this. Because when there's when they're mandating some of their suppliers to start beginning to tag at source for them, there becomes a certain threshold where the supplier says it probably just makes sense to tag everything with this, and then let me experience some of the benefits in my own supply chain. Right? So then other retailers who procure some of these goods from these different suppliers are then able to leverage that in their own environment as well.

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