An inventory management and replenishment system for consumable products where such products are stored in containers which hold multiple units of such products, said system comprising: (a) a said container, having a computer readable tag mounted thereon, said container being adapted and configured to store a first supply of a such product until said container is temporarily emptied, and wherein said container is replenished from a package containing a second supply of such product, all while the computer readable tag remains mounted on said container; (b) an antenna, said antenna comprising signal-emitting antenna structure defining an antenna loop, an antenna opening extending through said antenna loop, the antenna opening having a cross-section adapted to receive said container therethrough, said antenna being adapted and configured to transmit an antenna signal from said antenna loop; (c) a signal reader adapted and configured to read a response signal received from said computer readable tag when said container, bearing said computer readable tag, passes through said antenna loop; and (d) a computer subsystem, the computer subsystem being capable of receiving information, based on such tag response signal, from said signal reader, and capable of processing and effecting shipment of an order for replenishment of the respective such product to said container, based on the information from such tag response signal, thereby to manage and replenish the respective product inventory in the respective container whereon the respective computer readable tag is mounted; the antenna loop opening defining a path through said antenna loop, said system further comprising a kiosk extending about, and outwardly from, said antenna loop and the path, a chute wall of the kiosk extending from a beginning of the path, into the kiosk and to an end of the path, the kiosk having a structure extending about, and outwardly from, the antenna loop far enough that an entirety of an effective range of the antenna signal, transmitted to activate said computer readable tag, is limited to physical dimensions of said kiosk, said system further comprising an antenna assembly board extending across said kiosk, between left and right sides of said kiosk, and downwardly below the top of said kiosk, and a board opening extending through the antenna assembly board, said antenna loop being mounted in said kiosk proximate said antenna assembly board, and outwardly of, and proximate, said board opening, a speed control flap being mounted to said antenna assembly board only adjacent a top of the board opening, and draping, without further attachment, downwardly over the board opening, said speed control flap being designed and configured to control speed of movement of said container when said container is tossed through said chute. (a) a said container, having a computer readable tag mounted thereon, said container being adapted and configured to store a first supply of a such product until said container is temporarily emptied, and wherein said container is replenished from a package containing a second supply of such product, all while the computer readable tag remains mounted on said container; (b) an antenna, said antenna comprising signal-emitting antenna structure defining an antenna loop, an antenna opening extending through said antenna loop, the antenna opening having a cross-section adapted to receive said container therethrough, said antenna being adapted and configured to transmit an antenna signal from said antenna loop; (c) a signal reader adapted and configured to read a response signal received from said computer readable tag when said container, bearing said computer readable tag, passes through said antenna loop; and (d) a computer subsystem, the computer subsystem being capable of receiving information, based on such tag response signal, from said signal reader, and capable of processing and effecting shipment of an order for replenishment of the respective such product to said container, based on the information from such tag response signal, thereby to manage and replenish the respective product inventory in the respective container whereon the respective computer readable tag is mounted; the antenna loop opening defining a path through said antenna loop, said system further comprising a kiosk extending about, and outwardly from, said antenna loop and the path, a chute wall of the kiosk extending from a beginning of the path, into the kiosk and to an end of the path, the kiosk having a structure extending about, and outwardly from, the antenna loop far enough that an entirety of an effective range of the antenna signal, transmitted to activate said computer readable tag, is limited to physical dimensions of said kiosk, said system further comprising an antenna assembly board extending across said kiosk, between left and right sides of said kiosk, and downwardly below the top of said kiosk, and a board opening extending through the antenna assembly board, said antenna loop being mounted in said kiosk proximate said antenna assembly board, and outwardly of, and proximate, said board opening, a speed control flap being mounted to said antenna assembly board only adjacent a top of the board opening, and draping, without further attachment, downwardly over the board opening, said speed control flap being designed and configured to control speed of movement of said container when said container is tossed through said chute.