How wide spread is use of RFID already?
Here is a list of 103 firms which have sponsored the “Auto-ID Center” at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): http://www.spychips.com/rfid_sponsors.htm. The Auto-ID Centre is the organisation under whose roof the RFID infra-structure was developed with the help of such international players as Gillette, Unilever and Procter & Gamble. We assume that these firms will be the first to employ this technology. In the list you will find quite a number of firms you have never heard about. But mind that these big enterprises often operate under quite different brand names. While not allowing customers theirs, such enterprises often like to keep their anonymity. The METRO Group, e.g., which most Germans only know as a “wholesaler” is owner of retail chains such as Kaufhof, Extra, real, MediaMarkt, Saturn and Praktiker. Also “Reno Schuhe” was part of it until recently. As yet, the use of RFID in or on products is not very wide spread. But there are tests made by Gillette, Gerry Weber
