PURPOSE: To prevent in advance articles and a captioned equipment from being damaged in article supplementation by providing a stopping means for judging whether article supplementation is proper or improper on the basis of the room space information in each of article storing zones which is detected by a room space detecting means and stopping article supplementation if improper.

CONSTITUTION: A remaining article managing means E is provided to manage the quantity of the articles remaining on a shelf so as to correspond with each kind of the articles on the basis of article consumption data. And an article supplementing means L is equipped to supplement articles whose quantity is reduced based on the information detected by the remaining article managing means E. In addition, a room space detecting means 39 for detecting the room space in each of article storing zones is provided, and based on the information detected by the room space detecting means 39, a stopping means T judges whether article supplementation is proper or improper and stops the supplemental work, if improper, by the article supplementing means L.