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High Noon:Walmart will track your undies

Items of men’s underwear are seen on display at a London department store. As male vanity has increased in the past decade, so have retail sales – from tinted moisturizers to home waxing kits and men’s underwear. (Lefteris Pitarakis / The Spokesman-Review)
Items of men’s underwear are seen on display at a London department store. As male vanity has increased in the past decade, so have retail sales – from tinted moisturizers to home waxing kits and men’s underwear. (Lefteris Pitarakis / The Spokesman-Review)

"Walmart the world's largest retailer and the world's largest corporation  will be placing radio-frequency  identification (RFID) on the jeans and underwear sold in its 3,750 plus U.S. stores beginning next month. ... but some people are less than happy about the prospect of carrying around a tracking device in their skivvies." More. Matthew Zuras, Switched.com

I can see this coming in handy. What do you think?

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.