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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently sell desired merchandise by detecting 1st information showing the sales condition of bank account merchandise in each bank account on the basis of a detected term and sales quantity and grasping an appropriate merchandise sales condition obtained by considering a sellout condition and the number of housed merchandise in each column. SOLUTION: Relating to the automatic vending machine, the number of housed merchandise in each of columns 101-1 to 101-n is previously stored in the memory 132 of a controller 130. When a normal operation is started, an operation period is measured, and also, whether or not the merchandise in each of the columns 101-1 to 101-n is purchasable is checked. When a customer purchases the merchandise, the data of the sales quantity of the merchandise corresponding to the column are updated. In the case of confirming whether or not the correspondence of a column to merchandise is appropriate in replenishing merchandise, etc., columns in which merchandise is sold most and least are retrieved on the basis of an operator's instruction from an operating part 135.
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