Comment - Hey Vanessa, what a boon to supply management! Note this: "Companies as diverse as International Paper and Canon USA are teaming up with retailers and customers to apply R.F.I.D., as it is known, to tracking products from the time they leave an assembly line to the time they leave the store."

Wal-Mart is really interested in tagging everything in their stores so they know when to reorder stuff. And, for three months in 2001, Gap tested radio frequency tags on denim clothes at a store in Atlanta. Sales jumped because the tags prevented the store from running out of popular items, and the tags made it quicker to find any items in stock.

What I wonder about...how hard would it be to attach the tags to your kids? You'd have a sensor-reader in your house so you'd know when your kids left. Schools could have sensors in doorways to know who is skipping out. Malls could track when kids are shopping.

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