JPH0877434A - Vending control method of automatic vending mechine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To discount and vend merchandises and promote vending before the merchandises expire, and to prevent a merchandise which has already expired from being disposed of by detecting a stock period exceeding a prescribed period, and switching the vending price to a discount vending processing wherein the sale price is reduced more than a normal vending processing performed so far. CONSTITUTION: In a lst storage area 7a, the number (a) of days is written as a stock upper-limit period and in a 3rd storage area 7b, the number C (=a-n) of discount start days is written. When merchandises are charged in a merchandise payoff device group 5 and the operation is started, 0 is set as the number (b) of elapsing days in a 2nd storage area 8. The current time T is read out of a timer part 6 and when it is decided that the current time is 00:00 a.m., one is added to the contents of the number (b) of elapsing days in the 2nd storage area 8 and the contents of the 3rd storage area 7b are compared with the contents of the 2nd storage area 8. When it is decided that c<=b<a is esteblished, the discount vending is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales control method for an automatic vending machine that handles food and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional vending machine, the products that have not been sold and remain can be sold at any time. Therefore, products whose expiration date has passed may be sold.

[0003]

Therefore, the operator himself / herself visually confirms the expiration date of the products stocked in the vending machine, and implements quality control to replace the products, thereby deteriorating the quality of the sold products. Is preventing.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a sales control method which can reliably prevent the expiration product from being paid out.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In the vending machine sales control method according to claim 1, it is detected that the stock period has exceeded the prescribed period, and the selling price is reduced compared to the normal selling process up to that point. It is characterized by switching to discount sale processing.

The vending machine sales control method according to claim 2 detects that the stock period has exceeded the first prescribed period, and reduces the selling price from the normal selling process up to that point in the discount selling process. The present invention is characterized in that the stock period is detected to exceed the second prescribed period which is longer than the first prescribed period, and the process is switched to the sold-out process.

[0007]

According to the structure of claim 1, if the prescribed period is set shorter than the expiration date, the vending machine will carry out a discount sale and promote sales before the expiration date, and a product that remains in the vending machine when the expiration date expires. Drive to reduce the number.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the operation is performed so as to reduce the number of commodities remaining in the vending machine due to the expiration, and when the expiration occurs, the sales are automatically sold out without the intervention of an operator, and the product is not paid out.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A vending machine sales control method of the present invention will be described below with reference to specific embodiments.

1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 1 is connected to a depositing device 2, a product selection button group 3, a sold-out lamp group 4, a product dispensing device group 5, and a clock unit 6.

In the normal sale process, a sale determination is made according to the amount of money received from the deposit device 2, and it is detected that a column in the product dispensing device group 5 determined to be available is selected,
The product delivery device group 5 is operated so as to deliver the products in the selected column. In addition, when the product stocked in the product delivery device group 5 is out of stock, the operation of the product delivery device group 5 for the sold-out column concerned is not accepted and the corresponding column of the sold-out lamp group 4 is stopped. The sold-out lamp is continuously turned on to notify.

In the first storage area 7a of the control unit 1, the number of days: a is written as the stock upper limit period. Discount start days: c (= a-n) in the third storage area 7b
Is written.

When the product is charged into the product dispensing device group 5 and the operation is started, "0" is set in the second storage area 8 of the control unit 1 as the elapsed days: b. # 1
Then, the control unit 1 reads the current time: T from the clock unit 6,
In 2, it is determined whether the time read in # 1 is “midnight”.

If it is determined in # 2 that it is "midnight", the number of days elapsed in the second storage area 8 in # 3:
The content of b is set to "+1", and in # 4, the content of the third storage area 7b and the content of the second storage area 8 are compared.

When it is determined in # 2 that it is not "midnight", # 4 is skipped and # 4 is executed. If it is determined in # 4 that "c ≤ b <a" is not satisfied, the contents of the first storage area 7a and the second storage area 7a are determined in # 5.
Is compared with the contents of the storage area 8. # 5 with "b
When it is determined that ≠ a ", the above-described normal sale process is executed in # 6 and the process returns to # 1.

When it is determined that "c≤b <a" in # 4, discount sale is performed in # 7 and the process returns to # 1. The discount sale mentioned here is a sale process in which the sale price is reduced from the sale price of the regular sale process of # 6 even for the products in the same column, and the sale is promoted to the user.

If the product remains unsold after the discount sale in # 7, it is determined in # 5 that the stock product has expired by "b = a", and even if the product remains in the product dispensing device, the product is still in # 8. Sold out the corresponding column.

As described above, when the stock product expires, the vending machine executes # 8 to prevent the expired product from being sold, so that the situation where the expired product is dispensed can be avoided.

Further, instead of switching from the normal selling process of # 6 to the selling-out process of # 8, the discount selling process of # 7 is performed and then the selling process of # 8 is performed. Can be expected to be reduced.

[0020]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when it is detected that the stock period has exceeded the prescribed period, the selling price is switched to the discount sale processing which is reduced from the normal sale processing until then, and the sale is performed. If the specified period is set shorter than the expiration date, discounted sales will be performed without intervention of an operator, and automatic operation will be performed to reduce the number of products remaining in the vending machine due to expiration.

According to the structure of claim 2, when it is detected that the stock period exceeds the first prescribed period, the selling price is switched to the discount sale process which is reduced from the normal sale process until then, and the stock period is reduced. Second longer than the first prescribed period
When it expires, it is automatically operated to reduce the number of products remaining in the vending machine because it detects that the specified period has been exceeded and sells out. It is sold out and helps maintain the quality of the delivered products.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a specific example of a vending machine sales control method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 control part 3 product selection button group 5 product dispensing device group 6 clock part 7a 1st memory area 8 2nd memory area 7b 3rd memory area

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine sales control method, which detects that a stock period has exceeded a prescribed period and switches to a discount sale process in which the sale price is reduced from the conventional sale process. 2. Detecting that the stock period has exceeded the first prescribed period, the selling price is switched to the discount sale process which is reduced from the normal selling process until then, and the stock period is longer than the first prescribed period. A vending machine sales control method that detects that the second long specified period has been exceeded and switches to a sold-out process.