from the warehouse to the store shelf to the checkout counter.
             Companies such as Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Procter and Gamble and Wal-Mart have joined together to create standards ensuring that future tags and readers will all be compatible. The first mass application of these tags will be for the purpose of inventory management and control. Companies like Gap, Coca-Cola and Playtex will use this technology to track their inventory, for example to make sure a shipment going to Asia is not diverted to New York where consumers are likely to pay more. The tags also make it much harder for corrupt employees at warehouses to make goods "disappear" since readers automatically and continually log the whereabouts of every item.
             The changes these tags will bring involve your household appliances as well. For example, a reader built int
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