After meeting with its top 300 suppliers, the U.S.'s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, will expand its RFID roll-out faster than expected. Wal-Mart has been working towards a self-imposed January 2005 deadline to RFID-enable its North Texas operation, along with 100 of its suppliers. The first full-scale operational test began on April 30th. Today Wal-Mart said that it had expanded its supplier scope and deployment plan for RFID to 200 more suppliers.
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