RFID and Gillette

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Gillette is one of the first eight companies to work with Wal-Mart on the initial RFID pilot several years ago.

There were many public outcry with websites and even a group calling themselves- CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) was setup to boycott products that are RFID tagged.

It looks like they have learned that RFID technology is used to track these inventory as it moves through the supply chain, rather to spy on consumers because recent visit to the CASPIAN shows that they had not been active from 2005 (year of latest press release).


With RFID, Wal-Mart and their suppliers would have actionable visibility for these fast moving consumer goods from manufacturer to the distribution center, to the retailer stock room, to the shelf on the sales floor of the store.