To provide a cabinet capable of managing use-by date of an article and preventing the use of an article out of the use-by date.

This cabinet 1 has a bar code reader arranged on a stocker 13A to read a bar code displayed on a peripheral surface of a container, a controller for managing the use-by date of the article based on use-by date information read by the bar code reader, and an electric lock 17 for locking/unlocking a door 9 based on a command from the controller. In the cabinet 1, the door 9 is locked via the electric lock 17 in a state of the container stored in the stocker 13A, the controller outputs an unlocking command to the electric lock 17 when the controller judges that the article stored in the container is within the use-by date based on the use-by date information, and the electric lock 17 unlocks the locking of the door 9 according to the unlocking command.