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Wal-Mart plan to use smart tags raises privacy concerns  By Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) is putting electronic identification tags on men's clothing like jeans starting Aug. 1 as the world's largest retailer tries to gain more control of its inventory. But the move is raising eyebrows among privacy experts. The individual garments, which also includes underwear and socks, will have removable smart tags that can be read from a distance by Wal-Mart workers with scanners. In seconds, the worker will be able to know what sizes are missing and will also be able tell what it has on hand in the stock room. Such instant knowledge will allow store clerks to have the right sizes on hand when shoppers need them.

The tags work by reflecting a weak radio signal to identify the product. They have long spurred privacy fears as well as visions of stores being able to scan an entire shopping cart of items at one time.

Wal-Mart's goal is to eventually expand the tags to other types of merchandise but company officials say it's too early to give estimates on how long that will take.

"There are so many significant benefits in knowing how to better manage inventory and better serve customers," said Lorenzo Lopez, a Wal-Mart spokesman. "This will enhance the shopping experience and help us grow our business."

Before the rollout, Wal-Mart and other stores were using the tags, called radio frequency identification tags, only to track pallets or cases of merchandise in their warehouses. But now the tags are jumping onto individual items, a move that some privacy experts describe as frightening.

Wal-Mart, which generated annual revenue of a little more than $400 billion in its latest fiscal year and operates almost 4,000 stores, has huge influence with suppliers. That makes other merchants tend to follow its lead.

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Consumer Life 04/30/2009
 

Only mart! The only place to buy shit you don't need which was obsolete yesterday!!! YIPPIE!! Enjoy the enhanced security features of our new self-checkouts that attempt to delegate the responsibilities of  now out of work paid slaves to you, the braindead customer taken in by the myth that you can compensate for that born of your lack of resistance with excessive subsistence!!!

In this photo: Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney 

Be a rockstar, drink shit

Its flipping fantastic that people now require toxic doses of stimulants in order to manage their overstretched lifestyles and exploit their freeDUMb to the fullest potential possible. Whats even better is that the owner of the company who makes these drinks is an outspoken homophobe. Yippie!!! So for the sake of dignifying the rights of any individual on this planet to do whatever the fuck they please on thier own time so much as it doesnt infringe on the rights of others, fadsmashers is saying fuck rockstar, their heart attack inducing product and their 4th Reich values. Here are some quotes from the closet homosexual owner: (pardon lack of links as I copied from link below)

"You want me to tell you what makes me sick? When I see two puffy white males kissing each other, I want to puke.  When I see two women kissing each other, on the lips, as lovers, I want to vomit."
"When you hear "human rights," think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. And you'll get it just right. OK, you got it, right? When you hear "human rights," think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him. Write that down, make a note of it."
"...children's minds are being raped by the homosexual mafia, that's my position. They're raping our children's minds."
"You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is."

From:http://www.bilerico.com/2009/04/rockstar_energy_drinks_assault_on_lgbt_r.php

Apparently the owner has realized that the fascist market is a more lucrative one, judging by the state of things they may be right. 

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