It was announced today that Wal-Mart, in cooperation with Texas Instruments’ Educational Productivity Solutions business division, has started supplying RFID tags to the cases and pallets of calculates that are being sold within its store.
Texas Instruments is the not the first Wal-Mart supplier to do this as many of Wal-Mart’s other suppliers have started carrying out this process for the past year.
Last October, Wal-Mart extended its use of RFID tags by making sure at least 500 of its stores were enable with RFID readers.
According to a spokesperson for Texas Instruments, the use of RFID tagging on its calculators will help ensure that enough calculators are in stock for the start and duration of the school year.
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