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Manhattan Retail Convention Suggests Shopping Will Soon Change.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By Lauren Weber, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 14--You wake up one morning, stumble into the kitchen to make coffee and glance at the computer screen above the fridge. Your milk will expire in two days, it tells you.
You touch a few prompts on the screen to order milk and a few other items, stop by the grocery store on the way home from work to pick up the order, and never have to worry about rotten milk again.
Imagine it: no more mysterious smells emanating from the refrigerator.
That moment may not be too far away, believes one visionary retailer, who says technologies like radio-frequency identification, or RFID, are already revolutionizing shopping, from "smart" shopping carts to...
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