To expand the commodity sales promotion of an automatic vending machine(AVM) by providing the AVM with an information display means capable of improving advertisement and propaganda effects for commodities to be vended by the AVM, promoting the saving of maintenance work to be executed by a route man and presenting information service such as noted places and sightseeing guide around its location to AVM users.
A panel type display device 6 of a liquid crystal type or the like is loaded on the front surface of an outer door 2 of a cabinet 1. Information such as the advertisement information of commodities to be vended, sightseeing and traffic guide around the location of the AVM and the management information of the AVM are previously recorded in an information medium such as a CD-ROM and the information is read out in each mode by the operation of a keyboard 9 and displayed on a display device 6 as a pictograph.
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