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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make sell various kinds of wrapped commodities able to be sold with a common rack structure, to collectively gather plural commodities sepa rately conveyed from the rack to be able to be taken out of a commodity take-out port and thereby to improve the service efficiency for an automatic vending machine with a purchase method for offering plural wrapped commodi ties selected by a customer at a definite price. SOLUTION: This automatic vending machine is equipped with a commodity storage rack 2 for storing various kinds of the wrapped commodities 1 classified according to brands, and a cup supply mechanism 4 for supplying a commodity gathering cup 3 for accommodating the plural commodities taken out of the commodity storage rack 2. The commodity gathering cup is conveyed from the cup supply mechanism to a vending stage 3 of the commodity take-out port based on a sale command, and then the plural commodities selected by the customer are taken out of the commodity storage rack in order so that the commodities can be collectively gathered in the cup and taken out of the commodity take-out port.
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