METHOD FOR RETRIEVING SALES ITEM AT SHOPPING MALL, SHOPPING MALL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING SHOPPING-MALL SALES ITEM RETRIEVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To speedily and easily retrieve an article in a shopping mall. SOLUTION: A shopping mall server 1 runs a shopping mall comprising a plurality of stores provided on the Internet and the correspondence relation showing to which category among categories common to the stores each article sold at each store belongs is stored in an article information database DB in advance. When a category is specified from a mall user terminal 4, a shopping mall processing part 14 retrieves the names of articles belonging to the specified category according to the stored correspondence relation and a Web server 11 displays them on the mall user terminal 4.