JPH0540883A - Commodity selling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a commodity selling device which enables a customer to purchase the commodities displayed on the shelves in a store without carrying them. CONSTITUTION:A data input unit 2 is provided with a card reader which reads and scans the information cards of customers and a quantity designating means which inputs the quantity designating information on the commodities to be purchased. These units 2 are provided together with many commodity samples 8. The register units 3 end 4 contain a totalization/storage means which totalizes and stores the output information on the units 2, a card reader which reads and scans the information cards, and an adjustment processing means which carries out the adjustment processing respectively. Thus the customer performs only a prescribed input operation with the unit 2 and carries out the adjustment processing with the unit 4 to purchase the commodities.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product sales device used for sales of products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional product sales device has a structure in which a plurality of registers and a large number of display shelves are continuously installed in a store, and various products are arranged on these display shelves. It has become. In such a merchandise selling apparatus, a customer selects a merchandise desired to be purchased from a display shelf and puts it in a shopping basket, and brings it to a register position for settlement.

[0003]

In the above-described product selling device, the customer carries the product arranged on the display shelf to the position of the register and purchases it.

However, carrying the product in this manner is not preferable because it increases the burden on the customer and causes congestion in the store. Further, in the above-described product sales device, since the cashier needs to individually register and settle the products brought by the customer at the register position, the work is complicated and the sales work tends to be delayed. In addition, since it is necessary to arrange a large number of products for each type on the display shelves in advance, the work load on the store clerk is also increasing.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problem] At least product identification means for presetting product identification information for identifying a product in charge, a card reader for reading and scanning customer identification information from an information card carried by each customer, and a product to be purchased. A data input unit provided with a quantity designating means for inputting the quantity designating information is provided, and this data input unit is arranged together with each of a large number of product samples, and product identification information and quantity designating information output by the data input unit. And a totaling storage means for totaling and storing for each customer identification information, a card reader for reading and scanning the customer identification information from the information card carried by each customer, and a totaling storage means by the search processing by the customer identification information read and scanned by the card reader. Information retrieval means for calling merchandise identification information and quantity designation information from merchandise, and merchandise identification information and number called by the information retrieval means And settlement processing means for performing settlement processing by specifying information is provided register unit provided.

[0006]

[Operation] The customer can purchase the product by carrying the information card and performing a predetermined input operation on the data input unit.
The customer does not need to carry the products arranged on the display shelf.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
First, the wireless store system 1, which is the product sales device,
As illustrated in FIG. 1, a large number of data input units 2
, A single host computer 3 which is a part of the register unit, a plurality of electronic cash registers 4 which is also a part of the register unit, and a single automatic inventory device 5 are combined. In the wireless store system 1, the members 3 to 5 are connected to each other and are arranged close to a checkout counter 6 arranged in a corner of the store, and the data input unit 2 is continuously installed in the store. On the display shelf 7, each of the commodity samples 8 arranged one by one for each type is arranged in parallel.

Here, as illustrated in FIG. 2, the data input unit 2 fixed to the front edge of the display shelf 7.
As shown in FIG. 3, the external appearance has a structure in which a display 10, a keyboard 11 and a card reader 12 as a quantity designating unit are provided on the front surface of a main body housing 9, and as shown in FIG. In addition, the members 10 to the microprocessor 13 which is also a product identification means in terms of a circuit.
12 and buzzer 14 and SIO (Serial Input-Outpu)
t) 15 is connected, and the radio unit 16 is connected to this SIO 15. Here, this wireless unit 16
The keyboard 11 is composed of a transmitter 17, a receiver 18, and an antenna 19, and the keyboard 11 is composed of a numeric keypad 20, a registration key 21, a cancel key 22, a shopping end key 23, and the like. Further, the microprocessor 13 has a C
RAM (Random) in PU (Central Processing Unit)
Acccess Memory) and ROM (Read Only Memory)
For example, this RO
Product identification information for identifying the product in charge is stored in M.

On the other hand, the electronic cash register 4 is
As illustrated in FIG. 5, in appearance, a display 26, a receipt printer 27, a keyboard 28, a card reader 2 are provided in a main body housing 25 installed on the drawer 24.
As shown in FIG. 6, in the circuit, the microprocessor 30 which is also an information retrieval means, the members 24, 26 to 29, the memory 31 such as RAM, and the buzzer 32 are provided. It has a structure that connects.

The automatic inventory device 5 is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-48.
It is an existing device disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 310, etc., and operates here under the control of the host computer 3. In the host computer 3, the total storage means for totaling and storing various information output from the data input unit 2 is formed of a microprocessor such as a CPU or a memory 33 such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive). As illustrated in FIG. 7, the user file 34 formed in the memory 33 includes:
A large number of storage areas for storing product identification information 38, quantity designation information 39, unit price information 40, shelf number information 41, etc. are formed for each storage area for customer identification information 37 consisting of family name 35 and code number 36. The unit price information 40 is called from the PLU (Price Look Up) in the memory 31 of the electronic cash register 4 according to the information 35 to 39 input from the data input unit 2. Cage, the shelf number information 41
Is set here for each product identification information 38 for controlling the operation of the automatic inventory apparatus 5. Further, the host computer 3 is provided with information retrieving means, such as a microprocessor, for retrieving various information 38 to 41 in the memory 38 with the customer identification information 37 input from the card reader 29 of the electronic cash register 4. The payment processing means for executing the payment processing based on the information retrieved in this way is formed by the circuit members 28 to 31 of the electronic cash register 4.

In the wireless store system 1 having such a structure, the customer carries an information card (not shown) such as a magnetic card or a bar code card and confirms various product samples 8 in the store. Predetermined information is input to the data input unit 2 of the product requested to be purchased. Then, according to this input information, the automatic inventory device 5 automatically transfers the merchandise to the position of the checkout counter 6 and the electronic cash register 4 completes the registration processing. Therefore, the customer performs the settlement processing with the electronic cash register 4. It is designed to receive merchandise.

Therefore, the processing operation of such a wireless shop system 1 is based on the flowchart of the processing operation of the data input unit 2 illustrated in FIG. 8 and the flowchart of the processing operation of the register units 3 and 4 illustrated in FIG. 9. It will be described in detail below. First, as illustrated in FIG. 8, each data input unit 2 normally displays a message such as “Welcome” on the display 10, and is in a state of waiting for an input operation of each key 21 to 23. .. For example, when a customer who visually recognizes the product sample 8 and requests the purchase of the same product inputs the registration key 21, a message "How many?" Is displayed on the display 10 and waits for the input of the quantity designation information 39. When the customer enters the state and operates the numeric keypad 20 to input the quantity designation information 39 with a desired numerical value, a message "please pull the card" is displayed on the display 10.

Therefore, when the customer inserts the information card into the card reader 12 and pulls it out, the customer identification information 37 recorded on the information card is read and scanned and temporarily stored in the memory, which is a product identification means in the microprocessor 13. The wireless unit 16 together with the selected product identification information 38 and quantity designation information 39
Be transmitted to. Therefore, this data input unit 2
The wireless unit 16 sends each piece of information 35 to 39 to the host computer 3
When the information processing completion is received from the host computer 3 by wirelessly transmitting to the host computer 3, the message "Thank you" is displayed on the display 10 and the buzzer 14 is sounded once to return to the initial state. In addition, in the data input unit 2, the wireless unit 16 controls the information 35 to 39.
When wireless communication is transmitted to the host computer 3 and the occurrence of information processing failure is received from the host computer 3, the message "Please try again" is displayed on the display 10 and the buzzer 14 is intermittently sounded to return to the initial state. To do.

Therefore, in this wireless store system 1, when the data input unit 2 is returned to the initial state after the message "Please ask again" is displayed as described above, the customer performs the above-mentioned input operation. Although it will be repeated from the beginning, for example, when the customer stops thinking about purchasing the product, he / she inputs the cancel key 22 while the message of "Welcome" is displayed. Then, in the data input unit 2, the display 10
The message "Please pull the card" is displayed on the screen, and thereafter the same processing as described above is executed. Further, in this wireless store system 1, when the customer finishes shopping when the data input unit 2 returns to the initial state as described above, the customer is in a state where the message of "Welcome" is displayed. An input operation is performed on the shopping end key 23. Then, in the data input unit 2, the display 10
The message "Please pull the card" is displayed on the screen, and thereafter the same processing as described above is executed.

Next, the processing operation of the register units 3 and 4 which operates according to the data input by the data input unit 2 as described above will be described in detail below with reference to the flow chart illustrated in FIG. First, the host computer 3 of the register units 3 and 4 is always on standby for data reception from the data input unit 2, and when this reception is detected, the quality of data input is judged. Therefore, if the data input is defective, the occurrence of defective data reception is wirelessly transmitted to the data input unit 2, and if the data input is favorable, the input data is analyzed to determine the presence or absence of the shopping registration code by the registration key 21. .. Therefore, when this is detected, the PLU in the memory 31 is stored in the microprocessor 31 according to the information 35-39 input by the totalizing storage means.
7 and the other information 40 and 41 are complemented, and FIG.
The user file 34 as illustrated in FIG. Then, the user file 34 by such a total storage means
Upon completion of the preparation, the register units 3 and 4 wirelessly transmit reception data registration completion to the data input unit 2 and return to the initial state.

When the register units 3 and 4 detect the reception of data without the shopping registration code after the user file 34 is created as described above, the end of shopping is determined from the detection output and the user file 34 is automatically inventoried. Wired transmission to the device 5 and wireless transmission to the data input unit 2 indicating the completion of processing for shopping are returned to the initial state.

The various processes of the units 2 to 4 as described above are executed under the control of the microprocessors 13 and 30 which operate according to a preset program.

Therefore, in the wireless store system 1, a predetermined product is conveyed to the checkout counter 6 by the automatic inventory device 5 which operates according to the shelf number information 41 and the quantity designation information 39, and the checkout counter 6
User file 3 in the prescribed electronic cash register 4 of
The registration process according to 4 is executed. Therefore, when these operations are completed, the customer's call is broadcast in the store with the customer identification information 37, and the customer hands the information card to the cashier of the designated electronic cash register 4. Therefore, when the cashier inserts the information card into the card reader 12 of the electronic cash register 4 and inputs the customer identification information 37, the user file 34 having the same customer identification information 37 is read from the memory 33, and the user file 33 is read. According to the microprocessor 33
The settlement processing is performed by the settlement processing means including the keyboard 28 and the like. Therefore, when the settlement process is completed in this manner, the cashier will check out the counter 36.
The above product will be given to the customer.

By doing so, in the wireless shop system 1, the customer carries the information card and purchases the product only by performing a predetermined input operation on the data input unit 2 of the product to be purchased. Therefore, it is not necessary for the customer to carry and purchase the products arranged on the display shelf 7, so that the burden on the customer is reduced and the congestion in the store can be eliminated. Furthermore, this wireless store system 1
Then, when the customer instructs the end of shopping by the input operation of the data input unit 2, the electronic cash register 4 completes the product registration according to the user file 34 formed by the input information, and the cashier selects each product individually. Since it is not necessary to register in the above and only the settlement process is executed after the arrival of the customer, the work is simple and the sales operation can be executed quickly. Further, in the wireless store system 1, it is not necessary to arrange a large number of products for each type on the display shelf 7 in advance, so that the work load on the store clerk can be reduced.

The information card carried by the customer in the wireless shop system 1 may be temporarily lent to the customer so that it can be handed to the customer at the entrance of the shop and collected at the exit. It is possible to carry it to a customer who contracts in advance, or sell it to the customer like a prepaid card.

Further, in the wireless store system 1, it is assumed that the product sample 8 in which the actual product is stored in the case is installed in parallel in the data input unit 2, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned form. For example, it is also possible to form a product sample consisting of a photograph of the product on the front surface of the data input unit 2.

Further, in this wireless store system 1, it is exemplified that the customer carries the merchandise to the position of the checkout counter 6 by the automatic inventory device 5 before the settlement processing is completed. For example, it is also possible to send the information of the product purchased by the customer to a delivery center (not shown) outside the store, and deliver the product to the customer's home from here. ..

[0023]

As described above, the present invention includes a product identification means in which product identification information for identifying at least the product in charge is preset and a card reader for reading and scanning the customer identification information from the information card carried by each customer. Provided is a data input unit provided with a quantity specifying means for inputting the quantity specifying information of the product to be purchased, and the data input unit is arranged together with each of a large number of product samples, and the product identification information output by the data input unit. And a quantity specifying information for each customer identification information, and a totalizing storage means for storing the same, a card reader for reading and scanning the customer identification information from an information card carried by each customer, and a search processing by the customer identification information read and scanned by the card reader Information retrieval means for calling up product identification information and quantity designation information from total storage means and product identification called by the information retrieval means By providing the register unit provided with the settlement processing means for performing the settlement processing with the information and the quantity designation information, the customer can carry the information card and execute a predetermined input operation on the data input unit. Since it is not necessary for the customer to carry and purchase the products arranged on the display shelves, the burden on the customer can be reduced and congestion in the store can be eliminated. It is possible to complete the product registration with the transmission information of the data input unit before reaching the position of the unit, and it is not necessary for the cashier to individually register the product, and after the arrival of the customer the settlement process Since it is only executed, it is possible to perform the sales work quickly and do not need to arrange a large number of products for each type on the display shelf in advance. In, those having the effect of, or the like can also reduce the work load of the clerk.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a display shelf in which product samples and data input units are arranged.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a data input unit.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an electronic cash register.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual explanatory diagram showing a structure of information in a memory.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of the data input unit.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of a register unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 product sales device 2 data input unit 3, 4 register unit 11 quantity designation means 12, 29 card reader 13 product identification means 28-31 settlement processing means 30 information retrieval means 33 totalization storage means 37 customer identification information 38 product identification information 39 quantity Designated information

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. At least product identification means for presetting product identification information for identifying the product in charge, a card reader for reading and scanning the customer identification information from an information card carried by each customer, and quantity designation information for the product to be purchased. A data input unit provided with a quantity specifying means for operation input is provided, the data input unit is arranged together with each of a large number of product samples, and the product identification information and the quantity specifying information output by the data input unit are provided to the customer. A total storage means for totaling and storing for each identification information, a card reader for reading and scanning the customer identification information from the information card carried by each customer, and a search processing by the customer identification information read and scanned by the card reader from the total storage means Information retrieval means for calling merchandise item identification information and quantity designation information, and merchandise item identification information and number called by the information retrieval means A merchandise selling device characterized by comprising a register unit provided with a settlement processing means for carrying out a settlement processing with quantity specifying information.