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Wired July 2004 Josh McHugh	Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.
CIO September 15, 2003 John Edwards	Future Shop To find the "store of the future," you'll have to travel to Rheinberg, Germany. That's where Metro Group, the world's fifth largest retailer, has created a convenience store to serve as a real-world test bed for a variety of advanced retailing technologies.
CIO December 15, 2003 John Blau	Future Is Now at Supermarket At one of Metro AG's Extra supermarket outlets in the industrial Ruhr Valley city of Rheinberg, Germany, about the only thing automated systems won't do is place a shopper's groceries in her car. This is the retail giant's experiment begun in April known as the Future Store.
InternetNews January 12, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID... Tagged for Retail Software giants get behind the tiny tag technology they say could hold the key to real profits.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Khermouch & Green	Bar Codes Better Watch Their Backs New retail technologies have a way of lingering in dreamland until discount colossus Wal-Mart decides it's time for everyone to wake up. The alarm clock in Bentonville, Ark., just went off again, this time for a successor to bar codes called Radio Frequency Identification.
InternetNews March 29, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Vendor Team Hopes to Star in RFID Industry Four companies link for an end-to-end package designed to help suppliers meet the looming 'Wal-Mart Mandate.'
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Ewing et al.	The Next Wal-Mart? Aldi is Europe's stealth Wal-Mart. Like the Arkansas-based giant, Aldi boasts awesome margins, huge market clout, and seemingly unstoppable growth.
CIO December 1, 2003 Meridith Levinson	The RFID Imperative The adoption of RFID technology is inevitable. Its transformational promise, huge. But the success of RFID in your business depends on your infrastructure. Here's what you need to add to your holiday to-do list
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Sanjay Sarma, MIT's AutoID Center Sanjay Sarma helped create RFID, a new technology to track products from the factory to the warehouse to the retail shelf. It's designed to keep shelves full as well as reduce loss, theft, and inventory costs for retailers and their suppliers.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Timothy M. Otte	Scanning in the Aisles Giving customers handheld price scanners is not the next big thing for supermarkets. Radio frequency identification chips are. From an investor's standpoint, the problem is it's hard to say which companies are going to be the big winners in RFID.
CIO October 15, 2002 Susannah Patton	Food Fight As they struggle for survival against discounters like Wal-Mart, supermarkets turn to IT to make shopping easier, cheaper and more profitable for them.
Wired May 2006 Annalee Newitz	The RFID Hacking Underground They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Jim Wagner	Wal-Mart RFID Tests Underway The retail world is taking notes on the retail giant's first foray into 'case and pallet' level wireless tagging.
CRM January 11, 2013 Mikael Lyngso	Combating Shopping Cart Abandonment Leverage e-commerce data to boost online sales.
Fast Company November 2006 Paul Lukas	Whither the Checkout Girl? UPC codes and more-advanced cash registers have made efficiency, not friendliness, the vanguard in the checkout aisle. New technologies are taking such efficiency further.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Privacy Groups Tag RFID ACLU, Center for Democracy and Technology push for baseline privacy legislation.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz	Reaching For ROI On RFID Compliance continues to drive most RFID implementations. But Ford, International Paper and Gillette have found ways to cut costs and improve efficiencies.
InternetNews June 10, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID Privacy Gap? The drive to place radio frequency identification tags on consumer products is relentless, but IT leaders say public policy on how to use and secure the information they'll provide is lagging behind.
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Study Sees RFID Savings For Wal-Mart Shoppers more likely to find what they wanted on the shelves, thanks to the new technology.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The A to Z of RFID While consumers will grow to appreciate the RFID advantage, investors should aim closer to the vest to cash in on the RFID revolution.
InternetNews June 14, 2005 Colin C. Haley	No Substitute For RFID 'Launch and Learn' When it comes to radio frequency identification systems, there's no substitute for trial and error.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	California Crackdown on RFID A bill setting privacy standards for the tiny transponders has cleared the Senate.
PC Magazine September 7, 2004 Karen Jones	New Frontiers for RFID Tags Depending on how closely you guard your privacy, RFID is either a benevolent new technology or Big Brother waiting to pounce.
InternetNews August 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	On Wings of RFID, Supplying 'TrueDemand' RFID middleware company focuses on predictive supply chain software.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen	Wal-Mart's Big Gamble Wal-Mart's mandate that manufacturers adopt RFID to improve supply-chain management has clear benefits for Wal-Mart, but the payoff for manufacturers is less certain.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2008	RFID Down on the Farm and Up on the Shelves IBM teams with Norwegian food giant to develop track-and-trace technology.
InternetNews December 29, 2003 Colin Haley	Infosys Maps RFID Plan The Indian IT consultant launches a new supply chain management service.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	RFID Signal Strong in 2005 Radio Frequency Identification technology is going to ring in the new year in more ways than one. Think you should follow suit as an investor?
IndustryWeek June 1, 2003 John Teresko	Winning With Wireless In manufacturing, going wireless means developing a strategy for tracking what matters most -- via technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification), bar codes and machine monitoring. The results revolutionize the enterprise.
InternetNews June 7, 2004 Colin C. Haley	An Eye on RFID ROI Stumbling blocks like standards and costs are being addressed and execs are gaining confidence in the technology.
CIO January 1, 2003 Ben Worthen	Bar Codes on Steroids Radio Frequency identification (RFID) tags are like bar codes on steroids; they're to traditional SKUs what Robocop was to your ordinary cop on the beat.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen	RFID's ROI Within a few years, radio frequency identification tags on pallets and products could be as ubiquitous as bar codes now are, providing the manufacturing supply chain with more production and distribution data. But the benefits and costs of this technology still are being defined.
Science News February 23, 2002 Ivars Peterson	Ice Cream Wars Deciding which items to stock is a formidable problem for retailers. A mathematical model recently developed by three business professors is just one of many current efforts aimed at helping retailers cope with a highly competitive and volatile marketplace...
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Steven Mallas	Wal-Mart Plays (Smart) Tag Wal-Mart has commenced a pilot test of its inventory tag technology plans.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 David Blanchard	Wal-Mart Lays Down the Law on RFID Wal-Mart will begin levying fines for suppliers that don't comply with its RFID mandate.
Bank Technology News February 2009 John Adams	Put Those Barcodes Away for Good Bill Conroy, optimization program executive for Bank of America, is an enthusiastic evangelist for use of radio frequency identification (RFID) as a means to corral expensive IT assets.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2006 Paul Chang	Thought Leader: Chipping Away at Counterfeiting RFID technology promises to help FDA stem the tide of phony medicines. But that's just the beginning. It's also a great supply-chain management tool.
InternetNews September 13, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID Makes Its Mark The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) on Friday introduced the AIM RFID Mark standard, a graphical system to provide a standard way to clearly show the presence of an RFID transponder, its frequency and data structure.
PC World July 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Tracked by the Shirt on Your Back? Radio frequency technology has the potential to identify us all.
Inc. February 2006 Max Chafkin	Transforming In-Store Advertising Using existing RFID technology in a new way, companies can better test store displays.
HBS Working Knowledge February 2, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	RFID: The Promise (and Danger) of Smart Barcodes Thanks to Wal-Mart, we all have heard about radio frequency identification. Now RFID tags are set to pop up on everything from razor blades to cattle.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 George Koroneos	In Sync with California Pharmaceutical companies everywhere are preparing themselves for compliance with California's Electronic-Pedigree Mandates, which go into effect 18 months from now. When in place, an inspector will be able to receive, immediately, a record of any drug's chain of custody.
Food Engineering February 8, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins	RFID Making the Right Moves Despite the glitches, many food companies are proceeding with RFID implementations, convinced the technology will pay off long term.
CFO September 1, 2004 John Goff	Dude, Where's My Printer? RFID technology may someday revolutionize how companies track their products. But problems still lie ahead in adopting workable systems.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland	RFID May See 'Explosive' Growth Although tiny in size, radio frequency identification tags expect huge growth over the next five years.
The Motley Fool May 9, 2005 Chris Mallon	RFID: The Billion-Dollar Savings Plan Separating RFID winners from losers is tough -- except for one obvious group: the retail industry.
CIO February 15, 2003 John Edwards	Tag, You're It RFID technology provides fast, reliable asset identification and management.
Food Processing January 2005 Judy Rice	RFID on your package: No pain, no gain? Implementation of radio frequency identification technology isn't as simple as just slapping an RFID tag on a shipping case or pallet. Here are the critical considerations before implementing this technology ... and some available outside help.
CIO July 1, 2005 Thomas Wailgum	Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2007 Timothy M. Otte	Holiday Shopping Trip Very few retailers will consider 2007 a banner year, but the next few shopping days will at least allow some companies to salvage something from what will be for most a dismal holiday shopping season.