Is 'Kmart became the first major nonfood retailer to employ them as a means of tracking inventory in the early 1980s, several years before Walton made this technology a core building block of his distribution system.' in direct disagreement with the statement 'Walton was the first major retailer to track inventory in the early 1980s using the new distribution system.'
Kmart became the first major nonfood retailer to employ them as a means of tracking inventory in the early 1980s, several years before Walton made this technology a core building block of his distribution system.###Walton was the first major retailer to track inventory in the early 1980s using the new distribution system.