AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE AND SALES INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the loss of sales opportunity since an automatic vending machine stops its selling when the storage volume of sales information stored in a storing part reaches the full capacity of the storing part.

SOLUTION: This automatic vending machine is provided with a storing part which judges whether or not a storing medium to store user identification information is legal and stores the sales information of sales merchandise when the above mentioned storing medium is judged to be legal. The settlement processing system of the automatic vending machine is configured of an automatic vending machine control center and a sales information control center which receives the sales information of sales merchandise stored in the storing part and performs the settlement processing of the sales information of the sales merchandise to the automatic vending machine control center. The automatic vending machine is provided with a means for transmitting the sales information of the sales merchandise stored in the storing part to the sales information control center when the storage volume of the sales information of the sales merchandise stored in the storage part reaches the preliminarily set volume.

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