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Wal-Mart Relaunches EPC RFID Effort, Starting With Men's Jeans and Basics
Wal-Mart Stores is working with suppliers of men's jeans and basics (socks, undershirts and underwear) to be able to track these items using radio frequency identification tags based on EPCglobal's second-generation ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID standard and carrying Electronic Product Codes (EPCs). This effort is part of the next stage of Wal-Mart's EPC RFID program, which will concentrate on the types of products that have multiple stock-keeping units (SKUs) and are, therefore, a challenge to manage from an inventory perspective, according to Myron Burke, Wal-Mart's director of store innovation, who is leading the retailer's EPC RFID program in the United States.