To provide a vending machine which can not only increase replenishment efficiency of commodities per vending machine and further increase replenishment efficiency of commodities in a whole circulation route without creating an optimal circulation route for improving the replenishment efficiency of commodities but also improve efficiency of human work by performing routine work such as maintenance and bill collection together with replenishment of commodities.
A master vending machine obtains in-machine commodity stock information of a slave vending machine from the slave vending machine, obtains in-machine commodity related information of the master vending machine and in-machine commodity related information of the slave vending machine from a server, determines the prices of sales commodities of the master vending machine and the slave vending machine based on the in-machine commodity stock information of the master vending machine and the slave vending machine and in-machine commodity related information of the master vending machine and the slave vending machine, changes the current prices of commodities included in the in-machine commodity price information of the master vending machine to the determined prices of commodities, and sends the identification information of the sales commodities of the slave vending machine and the determined prices of commodities to the slave vending machine.
KAJII TAKAHIRO
YOSHIKAWA YOSHISHIGE
SASAKI OSAMU
OASHI MASAHIRO
UDA KENICHIRO
Daisuke Nagano
Kentaro Fujii