APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MERCHANDISE AT RETAIL SPOT

摘要

PURPOSE: To make it possible to process commodities in a retail shop by printing out a label including information such as the weight and price of a commodity to be sold by weight which are obtained from a data base in a computer at real time. CONSTITUTION: The weight of a commodity put on a scale is weighed by using a balance 132 built in a base board 104. A scanning head 102 identifies a commodity as meat, fish or the like by a label on which a bar code is printed out. A data base 124 discriminates the price (unit price) of the discriminated commodity per unit weight and the price is calculated by a system microprocessor. A printer 62 prints out a commodity name, a price and a unit price on a new label by alphanumerics/a machine readable code and the new label is stuck to the original label.