摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine capable of satisfactorily evoking the interest of a general user to trade articles in the vending machine based on trade article ranking data. <P>SOLUTION: In the vending machine 100, a ranking storage part 121 stores the trade article ranking data TRD of a plurality of types of stored trade articles in the vending machine, and a mode storage part 122 stores a plurality of output change modes in which output configurations are changed, and when at least one of a plurality of output change modes is validly set in a mode setting part 123, an output change part 131 changes the output configurations of the trade article ranking data TRD in response to this, and a ranking notification part 141 outputs the trade article ranking data TRD in the changed output configurations by notification. Thus, it is possible to satisfactorily evoke the interest of a general user in the vending machine trade article based on the trade article ranking data TRD by outputting the trade article ranking data TRD of the trade articles in the vending machine to be sold to a general user in various output configurations by notification. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |