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According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an article information detecting unit, an identification information detecting unit, and a distribution unit. The article information detecting unit detects article information displayed on the electronic shelf labels specified by shelf label identification information. The identification information detecting unit detects group identification information to identify whether articles having the article information displayed on the electronic shelf labels specified by the shelf label identification information belong to a same group or not. The distribution unit distributes display attribute information to differentiate display forms of the article information between articles belonging to the same group and articles that do not belong to the same group, to the electronic shelf label specified by the shelf label identification information corresponding to the article information of each of the articles identified as articles belonging to the same group from based on the group identification information.
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