To take safety precautions so as not to injure a hand even when touching the lower edge of a rack side board in the case of working a merchandise storage rack while inserting the hand from the down-side.

In this merchandise storage rack 4 for automating vending machine constituted by incorporating a top tray 4b, a rail segment 4c forming a meandering merchandise storage column and a vending mechanism 4d from the upside between a pair of left and right rack side boards 4a made of thin steel plates, the lower end edges of these rack side boards are turned over and double hold parts 4a-2 are formed at the edge parts. Thus, even when the hand is inserted from the lower surface side into the merchandise storage rack and touches the rack side boards, the hand is not injured, also the bending rigidity of the rack side boards themselves are improved, and the strength of the rack can be reinforced.