In 2004, a large department store chain in Germany was forced to withdraw customer loyalty cards when the press discovered that the company had secreted radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags in the plastic.Even when enclosed in a wallet or purse, these cards can transmit information over distances of about a meter, and the stores planned to use them to track which departments the customer visited.All of the customer information gathered was stored in a(n):
A)data mine
B)information center
C)data station
D)data warehouse
E)information network

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The correct term for a large store of data accumulated from a wide range of sources within a company and used for reporting and data analysis is a "data warehouse." This is where the information gathered from the RFID tags in the customer loyalty cards would be stored for analysis.

In 2004, a Large Department Store Chain in Germany Was