To provide a vending machine, capable of suitably performing sales stop caused by heating deterioration of a commodity so that the days until the warming deterioration of the commodity is determined by a storage location of the commodity in accordance with the temperature distribution in a chamber and avoiding a sales opportunity loss of the commodity.
The vending machine comprises a means for detecting the storage location of the commodity, when a new commodity is replenished or the commodity is carried out or a storage date passes by; a means for calculating the remaining dates to until the day of stopping of sales due to warming deterioration with a remaining date calculating means 6, on the basis of data stored in a warming date memory means 5, and storing the data in a remaining days storage means 7; and a means for determining whether sale of the commodity is to be stopped by a determining means for sold-out 8. When it is determined that the sale of the commodity is to be stopped, the sales opportunity loss of the commodity can be avoided, since the sale of the commodity concerned is stopped by a sales stopping means 9 and the sales stop caused by warming deterioration of the commodity can be performed appropriately, on the basis of the temperature distribution in the chamber.
YOSHIDA MORIYUKI
KUBOTA YOSHITAKA
NAKAMURA TAKASHI
KAWAMI KOHEI
HAYASHI YOSHIHARU
KAWABE MASAAKI
SANO KAZUO
NAITO YOSHITAKA
Hiroki Naito
Daisuke Nagano