JPH07296075A - Commodity subscription system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To register a commodity a purchaser regularly purchases at a store such as a supermarket to a specified customer card as a regularly purchased commodity. CONSTITUTION:Commodity information of a commodity reset by a POS terminal equipment 3 is managed by the by-customer file of a high-order device 4 so that a commodity which is purchased over the number of times specified in advance is registered in the customer card possessed by a customer 6 as the candidate of a subscribed commodity. A subscription register device 2 reads subscribed commodity candidate data from the customer card and displays it so as to facilitate subscription resister. Consequently, the purchaser can execute subscription register by easily selecting a commodity he/she likes. Besides, the commodity purchased regularly can automatically be registered as a regularly purchased commodity, labor and time for selecting a commodity for register can be saved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a checkout system used in a retail store, and more particularly to a reservation sales system which allows a customer to easily purchase a desired product.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A reservation application for a commodity is generally made as a method for easily and surely obtaining a commodity that a purchaser is going to purchase in advance. This is because, for example, the purchaser himself purchases the product name, quantity,
It is to fill in the necessary information such as name and address, and the purchaser keeps a copy of it, and the store side delivers the product in exchange for the copy brought by the customer when the product is sold.

However, with regard to products that are needed every day, such as food items and daily life items, and need to be purchased frequently,
Filling in the application form each time and making a reservation is too time-consuming and unrealistic. In general, such a product is purchased by a purchaser from a product displayed in a retail store such as a supermarket and carried to a payment counter using a basket for accounting. However, such a purchase method requires time and effort to find the desired product, and it is a waste of time when the product is sold out or searching the store for a product that the store does not handle in the first place. .

Further, during busy times, customers are concentrated at the payment counter, and a long line of shoppers waiting to be settled is formed, which not only wastes time until the customer's turn, but also the reception of the clerk. Sometimes the load is concentrated. Therefore, there is a need for a system that enables reliable reservation and registration of merchandise and automatic payment without complicated operations at the storefront.

For example, in the reservation sale system disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-165493, there is disclosed a technique for making a reservation sale of a product by using a card which can pay the price of the product up to a predetermined purchase limit, for example, a prepaid card. Has been done. This is provided with a second storage unit for storing reservation information in addition to a first storage unit for storing a customer code and a balance on a card, and a customer making a reservation stores the reservation information in advance in the customer side device. Then, the information is read by an in-store terminal installed in the store and a reservation registration process is performed.
At the same time, payment will be made from the prepaid card,
Even when the product is received, the labor of payment is saved and the processing is completed in a short time.

[0006]

However, in the conventional technique as described above, although the reservation information is coded to facilitate the input, when the reservation is updated, all the reservation information previously input is cleared. Therefore, it is necessary to input the product code again when reserving the same product as the one reserved last time. For example, when visiting a store, there is a problem that it is necessary to input a code each time for a product that is consumed every day such as bread or milk that is purchased every day and needs to be purchased frequently.

Therefore, the present invention facilitates the pre-purchase purchase of such a product that needs to be purchased frequently, and the purchaser does not have to search the inside of the store for the desired product, and the queue at the payment counter is used. The purpose is to reduce the load on customers and store staff.

[0008]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a POS terminal device for registering ID information assigned to each customer and product information purchased by the customer, and the POS terminal device. By managing the ID information registered with the product information and the product information in association with each other and storing a product that has been purchased a certain number of times or more as a pre-purchased product candidate, the reservation corresponding to the ID information by inputting the ID information. This is achieved by the reservation registration means for reading out and displaying the purchase commodity candidates from the storage file, selecting from the displayed reservation purchase commodity candidates and performing reservation registration.

[0009]

[Operation] When a customer purchases a certain product more than a certain number of times,
The product is stored in the storage file as a pre-purchased product candidate that is likely to be purchased next time. When you make a reservation for a product,
Product information regarding these candidate products is read out from the storage means and displayed. Then, it becomes possible to select from the displayed candidate products and perform reservation registration.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a store using the reservation sales system according to the present invention.

Reference numeral 1 represents the inside of the store, 2 is a reservation registration device, 3 is a PO installed at a payment counter, and operated by a clerk
S terminal device, 4 is reservation registration device 2 and POS terminal device 3
Is a higher-level device that manages.

The customer 6 who came to this store, in the case of a normal purchase,
The product placed in the product display case is selected, and the product to be purchased is taken to the clearing counter operated by the clerk where the POS terminal device 3 is arranged and operated for payment. On the other hand, a customer who wants to use the reservation sale system makes a purchase by using a specific customer card created in advance.

FIG. 2 conceptually shows a storage structure inside the specific customer card.

In the figure, 5 specific customer cards are 4
It has two memory sections. The first storage unit 51 stores the product data in the recent clearing process, the second storage unit 52 stores the product data for pre-purchasing, and the third storage unit 53 regularly purchases the product data. The product data is stored. In addition, personal information data of the person who owns the card, for example, a membership number of a subscriber of the reservation sales system is stored in the fourth storage unit 54.

Next, a reservation purchase system using the specific customer card 5 will be described.

A customer who makes a reservation purchase of a product using the specific customer card 5 uses the reservation registration device 2 in the store 1 to make a reservation registration of the product.

As shown in FIG. 3, the reservation registration device 2 displays the information of the reserved product read from the specific customer card 5, and can select the reserved product, confirm the reservation registration, and cancel the reservation. There are a display input unit 21 such as a transparent touch panel that can be used, a print output unit 22 that outputs a receipt for confirming a transaction, and a card reader / writer unit 23 that reads and writes the data of the set specific customer card 5.

The customer puts his or her own customer card 5
When set in the card reader / writer unit 23 of the reservation registration device 2, the information stored in each storage unit is read from the inserted specific customer card 5 and displayed on the display input unit 22 of the reservation registration device 2. It

The customer follows the prescribed input guidance
Input section 22 for displaying reservation items registration, designated purchase date, etc.
Will be done at. The entered reservation information is registered in the customer card 5 after confirmation of reservation registration, and the print output unit 22
At, a receipt for confirming the reservation is printed out.

The reservation information registered by the reservation registration device 2 is sent to the higher-level device 4, and the reservation information is stored in the customer-specific file 41 provided for each member number of the subscriber. Perform processing. Then, the customer who visits the store on the scheduled purchase date can present the customer card and purchase the reserved product promptly and surely.

The reservation purchase system, which is the most characteristic feature of the present invention, will be described in more detail.

For example, the purchaser 6 in FIG. 1 has a product to be purchased at the time of coming to the store, and a PO is required to settle the product.
Go to the S terminal device 3. At the time of payment, POS in Figure 3
The customer card 5 is read by the card reader / writer unit 32 of the terminal device 3, and if there is a product reserved at the time of the previous visit to the store, the settlement is completed. At this time, the POS terminal device 3 transmits the data of the purchased item at the time of settlement to the host device 4.

The upper level device 4 manages the data of the purchased item in the storage area corresponding to the member number provided in the customer-specific file 41. It remembers how much you purchased such products. And host device 4
Estimates the next reserved product based on the information of the purchased product for each customer managed in the customer-specific file 41.

For example, when the same product as the product purchased when the user previously visited the store is purchased a plurality of times in the past so that the same product is also purchased when visiting the store this time, the host device 4 determines a predetermined number of times. The product information related to the product being purchased is picked up from the customer-specific file 41 and transferred to the POS terminal 3. In the POS terminal device 3,
In the second storage unit 52 of the specific customer card 5, as a candidate for a product that is likely to be purchased next time, that is, a candidate for a pre-purchased product
Write the product information.

When this particular customer card is set in the reservation registration device 2, the commodity information of the reservation candidates in the second storage section 52 is read and displayed on the display input section 21. Customers,
You can easily make a reservation registration by selecting from the pre-purchased product candidates that are highly likely to be reserved displayed on the display unit, and you can make reservations from all the products in the store. You can save the trouble of searching.

Further, when purchasing the product a plurality of times in succession so that the same product as the product purchased at the previous visit to the shop is also purchased this time, the host device 4 obtains the product information about the product from the customer-specific file 41. Transfer to the POS terminal device 3. In the POS terminal device 3, the third customer of the specific customer card 5 is registered as a candidate product for regular purchase.

When this customer card is set in the reservation registration device 2, the commodity information of the regular purchase candidates in the third storage portion is read out and displayed in the display input portion 21. The customer who makes the reservation registration selects a desired product for regular purchase from the regular purchase product candidates displayed in the display input section 21,
Registering makes it easy to register your subscription.

As described above, the products purchased a predetermined number of times or more are stored in the specific customer card as products that are likely to be purchased at the next visit to the store and as reservation candidate products. In addition, products that have been purchased more than a predetermined number of times in succession are products that are likely to be purchased regularly,
It is stored in a specific customer card as a so-called regular purchase candidate product.

The customer sets his or her specific customer card 5 in the reservation registration device 2 and selects from the displayed reservation candidate products or regular purchase candidate products, thereby easily making a reservation purchase or a regular purchase. You will be able to register.

In the above-described embodiment, the purchased product data is managed by the customer-specific file 41 in the higher-level device 4, but the customer card 5 may store information indicating the usage status in reservation and purchase. You may

For example, in the POS terminal device 3, the product information purchased at the time of settlement is written in the storage unit in the customer card 5. When this customer card 5 is set, the reservation registration device 2 reads out the product information that has been purchased until now from the storage unit of the customer card 5 and reserves the product that has been purchased a predetermined number of times or more. It is displayed in the display input unit 21 as a highly-reserved candidate product, and when the product has been continuously purchased a predetermined number of times or more, it is displayed and input as a regularly purchased product candidate that is highly likely to be purchased regularly. It is displayed on the section 21 and the customer can easily select the product when making a reservation purchase at the next visit to the store or when making a periodic reservation purchase.

In the above embodiment, an example is shown in which the products that have been purchased a predetermined number of times or more are displayed as selection candidates for reservation purchase or regular purchase. However, these products are accepted as reservation products in advance. The customer may make a reservation purchase or a regular purchase only by confirming these products.

For example, the purchaser 6 who has completed the settlement with the POS terminal device 3 uses the reservation registration device 2 shown in FIG. 1 to insert the specific customer card 5 into the card reader / writer 23 to read it into the data, and to enter the display. The current reservation status is confirmed in section 21. At this time, a product that has been purchased a predetermined number of times or more may be accepted as a pre-purchased product, and the customer may be able to register the product only by confirming the reservation. Similarly, for regular purchase registration, the registration may be performed only by confirming the regular purchase.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the products which have been cleared by the POS terminal 3 are counted, but the reserved products may be included in the count.

For example, if the same product is continuously purchased twice the previous time and this time, and a reservation is made to purchase the product at the next visit, the product to be continuously purchased three times is regularly purchased. It may be picked up as a product candidate.

In the above-described embodiment, the products purchased a predetermined number of times or more are picked up as the candidates for the reservation purchase. However, all the recently purchased products are candidates for the reservation purchase, and the reservation candidates are selected. A product registered as a reservation purchase may be picked up as a candidate for regular purchase.

Further, the usage status stored in the file for each customer or the customer card may be such that not all the purchases made in the past are stored but the product information in the past several transactions. In addition, for products that have not been purchased or reserved for a predetermined number of times in a row, the product information may be deleted from the storage for each customer file or customer card.

In the above embodiment, when the reserved product is collected, the member number and the reservation data on the customer's specific customer card are read to confirm the person or the reserved product. The output unit 22 may output a voucher serving as a voucher for the reserved product, and the reserved product may be passed in exchange for the voucher. For example, a part of the receipt printed out by the printout unit 22 may be used as a reservation voucher.

[0040]

According to the present invention, a purchaser can easily select a product that suits his / her taste and can make a reservation registration. Also, the products that I purchase regularly are
Since it can be automatically registered as a regular purchase product, it is possible to save the trouble of selecting a product for registration.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a store layout according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing a data structure in a specific customer card.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an appearance of a reservation selling device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an internal structure of a POS terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Store 2 Reservation registration device 3 POS terminal device 4 Upper device 5 Specific customer card 6 Purchaser 21 Touch panel 22 Print output unit 23, 31 Card reader / writer unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A POS terminal device for registering ID information attached to each customer and product information purchased by the customer, and the P
A storage file that manages ID information registered in the OS terminal device and product information in association with each other, and stores as a pre-purchased product candidate a product that has been purchased a certain number of times or more,
By inputting ID information, the pre-purchased product candidates corresponding to the ID information are read out from the storage file and displayed,
A product reservation system, comprising: a reservation registration unit that selects a reservation from the displayed pre-purchased product candidates and performs reservation registration.