Posted By: Avalee
Walmart To Test RFID Tracking Devices - 06/23/03 04:09 AM
Last week I was listening to a radio program about the cards that the supermarkets use to give us discounts. They gave a link to a web page that tells about what they hope to do in the future with this technology. I find this very interesting how they can track all the things we buy, etc. While following some of the links I ran across where Walmart wants to put chips into things you would take home with you.
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Wal-Mart and Gillette to begin secretly monitoring products, purchasers.
Thousands of unwitting consumers will soon take tracking chips home with them
Wal-Mart will begin selling Gillette shaving products equipped with RFID tracking devices as early as next week, according to a Boston Globe article dated June 9. The RFID devices, designed to go undetected by the average shopper, will be sold at the Brockton, Massachusetts Wal-Mart store. The Brockton Wal-Mart serves a predominately low income, minority neighborhood. Why has this community been singled out for extra surveillance?
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As early as this week in its Brockton store, Wal-Mart will put RFID sensors on a shelf stocked with RFID-tagged Gillette products to test the concept. Other retailers and suppliers, including Procter & Gamble Co., Home Depot Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Inc., are supporting RFID's development.
Boston Globe Online
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This is the web site they gave on the radio about the supermarket cards.
CASPIAN- Consumer Against Supermarket Invasion and Numbering
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This is the home page to RFID details.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)