Video: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: On RFID, green IT and retail tech

Published: 24 September 2007 21:00 BST by silicon.com

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In this exclusive interview with silicon.com's community editor & chief reporter Andy McCue, Tesco's group IT director Colin Cobain talks about the supermarket giant's move to standard global systems and processes, reveals plans to cut IT energy consumption and gives an update on trials of radio frequency ID tags to track goods through the supply chain.



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