To provide a cabinet capable of managing use-by date of an article and never paying out the article out of the use-by date.

This cabinet 1A has an antenna to receive information of the use-by date of the article transmitted from an IC tag mounted on a container, an IC tag reader to read the information of the use-by date received by the antenna, a controller to manage the use-by date of the article in accordance with the information of the use-by date read by the IC tag reader and an electric lock 17 free to lock a door 9 of the cabinet 1A. The controller outputs a locking signal to the electric lock 17 when it judges that the article out of the use-by date exists in the cabinet 1A in accordance with the information of the use-by date and the electric lock locks the door in accordance with the locking signal in the cabinet 1A.