Walmart is implementing RFID product labeling requirements for suppliers of five additional product categories on August 17, 2022. Here’s what you need to know and how to act quickly with an easy way to meet RFID Walmart’s requirements.

Beginning June 3, 2022, all Walmart suppliers listed in the categories below must already be applying RFID tags or labels on their products or packaging, to ensure that items can be identified, located and tracked as they’re received, displayed and sold.

All suppliers will need to take action to ensure RFID labeling or tagging compliance and maintain their status with Walmart. Once your company has implemented RFID, it will need to continue to label and tag products or packaging accordingly.

All suppliers will need to take action to ensure RFID labeling or tagging compliance and maintain their status with Walmart. Once your company has implemented RFID, it will need to continue to label and tag products or packaging accordingly.

Included Walmart Product Categories

When inventory isn’t accurate and products are out of stock or not on the store shelf, it’s a lost sale and a bad experience for customers, especially when online ordering as well as in-store pickups and curbside pickups are the new normal. That’s why Walmart will use RFID to ensure your products are available and in stock when customers are ready to buy.

Adding RFID labels to your products or packaging helps Walmart track those items as they’re received, displayed and sold in stores. This enables real-time inventory accuracy that ensures your products are in stock.

Better inventory accuracy means more sales for Walmart, better satisfaction for Walmart customers, and more replenishment and growth opportunity for your business.

RFID labels and tags can be read by the thousands in seconds or minutes. This means companies such as Walmart and your business can use RFID labels to automate your inventory and processes for improved efficiency, increased accuracy, better supply chain visibility, and major cost and labor savings.

Most retail RFID tracking is done with passive RFID using UHF (ultra-high frequency) labels or tags. These are the least expensive types of labels and tags, and they can cost as little as a few cents each in high volumes.

Your exact cost will depend on the specific label or tag you need to use as well as whether you’re doing your own RFID printing and encoding. You can learn more by contacting us below to explore your options.

OmniQ has been helping companies implement RFID labeling, tagging and tracking for well over a decade, and we work closely with our RFID technology partners at Zebra to help you at every step of the way. We provide complete RFID solutions, planning, implementation, and support so you can quickly meet Walmart’s requirements and stay focused on your business.

With Zebra RFID solutions, you have two great options to meet Walmart’s new requirements.

Zebra industrial RFID printers are the industry leading choice for RFID printing and encoding, with easy integration with your existing devices and systems, centralized and remote printer management, and ruggedly durable performance you can depend on for years.

Zebra provides a completely portfolio of RFID labels and tags to meet Walmart’s exact specifications for every product category, including specialized options for virtually any application.