Imagine a day when, after you leave...

Imagine a day when, after you leave a retail store with a blender for example, someone monitors that appliance and you. Think it can't happen? Actually, it's already possible by the agency of using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which engrosss microchips to wirelessly transmit result serial numbers to a scanner without human intervention. The technology is seen as an eventual successor to barcode inventory tracking orders and promises to cut distribution charges for manufacturers and improve retailing margins.

In the last hardly any months, RFID has been in the headlines, as at least the same appliance company and a not many retailers have ...