JP2003043918A - Label issuing equipment, merchandise processing system and method of discounting merchandise - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a label with codes which is capable of preventing a cashier at a checkout counter from neglecting to discount bargain merchandise. SOLUTION: This label L2 with codes is printed with the codes Mc including information which is the encoded information corresponding to the price of the merchandise M and is readable by a code reader. The information P1 before the price cut of the merchandise M and the information P2 relating to the price after the price cut are included in the codes.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coded label and a label issuing device which are attached to foodstuffs such as supermarkets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in supermarkets and the like, barcodes printed on labels attached to products and packages are read by a barcode reader of a register to settle purchases and to help manage sales. In the case of products such as perishable food products, the price is reduced when the expiration date is approaching. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, the price reduction display label 101 different from the barcode label 100 is attached to the product M. And promote sales. For products with reduced prices (hereinafter referred to as “closed-up products”), for example, at the time of purchase, by pressing the price reduction amount key, the bar code reader of the register reads the original selling price of the label with bar code 100 before the price reduction. , Is clearing the purchase.

[0003]

However, in this conventional system, the cashier operator may forget to operate the key for the price reduction, which causes troubles and reduces the credibility of the store. .

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and a main object of the present invention is to provide a coded label which can prevent forgetting of discount at a cash register for a closeout product.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the coded label of the present invention has a code readable by a code reading device, which includes information about a product before price reduction and a price after price reduction (hereinafter, It is included both information about "closed price".).

According to the present invention, since the code includes information about the close-up price, the close-up price is input to the register by reading the code, so that it is possible to prevent forgetting the discount at the cash register.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 show a first embodiment. In the first embodiment, the NON PLU used in the store
A label with a barcode according to the 13-digit barcode system will be described. Note that an adhesive is provided on the back surface of the label described below, and the label is issued from the label issuing device in a state of being arranged on the peeling mount.

In the original selling price label L1 of FIG. 1A, a bar code is displayed in addition to the product name, the expiration date and the price. The bar code includes a flag F1, a product code Mc, and a check price C in order from the left end of the bar code.
1, price (prior sale price) P1 and check digit C2
It is included. Of these information, product code Mc
The price (original selling price) P1 constitutes "information before price reduction on the product" in the present invention. The OCR characters are also written below the barcode.

FIG. 2 (b) shows the label L2 after cutout according to the present invention. The label L2 after the closeout includes a code display portion 1 displaying a bar code, and a visual recognition portion 2 for allowing the consumer to visually recognize price reduction information and information regarding the price after price reduction. On the code display portion 1, the code information before and after the price reduction is displayed, for example, a two-stage bar code divided into two lines or two stages, and an OCR character. In the code display section 1, the left pre-price reduction information display section A and the right pre-price reduction information display section B display the same number of digits of code information.

In the pre-price reduction information display portion A, contents substantially the same as the original selling price label L1 such as the product code and the original sale price are displayed.
A flag F2 different from the original selling price label L1 in (a) is displayed so that it can be distinguished from the original selling price label L1 when read by a barcode reader. On the other hand, the post-price information display section B displays the number of closeouts information N and the closeout form information K.
And the post-closeout price information P2 regarding the closeout price is displayed.

As a method of displaying the price information P2 after the close-up, as shown in FIGS. 1 (b) and 2 (b), a method of displaying a close-up width (width of price reduction) and FIG. 2 (a), (C),
As shown in (d), there is a method of displaying the price after cutoff (the price itself after the price reduction).

The close-up form information K of the post-price reduction information display portion B in FIG. 1B includes information on the mode of price reduction and information on the display mode of the price reduction price. For example, as shown in Fig. 1 (b), "circle drawing" and "partition width"
When is displayed, “1” is displayed as the close-up form information K. Further, as shown in FIG. 2A, when "yen discount" and "post-discontinuation price" itself are displayed, "2" is displayed as the discontinuation type information K. As shown in FIG. 2B, when "% discount" and "discontinuation width" are displayed, "3" is displayed as the discontinuation form information K. As shown in FIG. 2C, when the “% discount” and the “closed price” itself are displayed, “4” is displayed as the closeout type information K. As shown in FIG. 2D, when the "just price discount" and the "closed price" itself are displayed, "5" is displayed as the closeout form information K. That is, the "price reduction mode" includes "yen discount" and "% discount", and the "price reduction price display mode" includes a method of displaying a "price reduction range (closeout width)" and a "price reduction". There is a method of displaying the "commodity price after (closed price)" itself.

In the label L2 after the cutout shown in FIG. 1B, a cutting line such as a perforation 3 that allows the code display portion 1 and the visual recognition portion 2 to be separated from each other is provided.
Is prepared between The operator at the backyard separates the label L2 after the closeout into two at the perforation 3 and
As shown in (c), the code display unit 1 is attached on the bar code of the original selling price label L1, and the visual recognition unit 2 is attached on another conspicuous portion of the product M. The cashier operator reads the code display portion 1 of the product M to input the product price after the closeout into the register. For example, in Figure 1.
In the case of (c), the register recognizes that it is a two-stage bar code by the flag F2 of the information display section A before price reduction, and indicates “circular discount” and “ Recognizing that you are displaying the "closeout width",
"1098", which is obtained by subtracting "200 yen" from the original price "1298 yen"
"Yen" can be recognized as the product price. Therefore, it is possible to simultaneously carry out the discount only by the operator reading the bar code at the cash register, and it is possible to prevent forgetting the discount at the cash register. Moreover, since it is possible to know the information about the product before the price reduction, it is possible to manage the sales and display the product name corresponding to the product code.

Further, in this embodiment, the perforation 3 is provided in the label L2 after the cutout in FIG.
Since the visible part 2 can be separated, the code display part 1 can be attached to the original selling price label L1 and the visible part 2 can be attached to a conspicuous part of the product M, which is convenient.
For example, in a product such as "coffee milk" that is filled in a paper pack, a barcode is displayed on the back side of the paper pack, and even if the visual recognition unit 2 is attached to the back side, the product is not consumed by the consumer. You can't show that it's a cutout. On the other hand, if the visual recognition part 2 is separable from the code display part 1 as in the present embodiment, the visual recognition part 2 is attached to the upper part of the front side of the paper pack and the code display part 1 is attached to the rear side of the paper pack. It can be affixed on the barcode.
Therefore, it is possible to prevent forgetting to reduce the price and appeal the price reduction.

By the way, in the above-mentioned embodiment, since the close-out number information N is displayed, it is possible to analyze the sales condition of the close-out product by reading the close-up number information N and the close-up price and the close-out form. For example, in the case of perishable food, the more the product is closed, the more the product is unsold,
Consumers tend to have the bad impression that they are products with low freshness. Therefore, there are many cases where it is desired to set an appropriate price that can be sold out at the first closeout. In such a case, if the number of closeouts is stored as the product information, it can be useful for sales promotion by analyzing the sales condition.

Further, as will be described below, information about the timing of the price reduction may be displayed in the information display section B after the price reduction. Figure 3 shows the bar code of in-store marking in numerical form. After price reduction, the information display area B
The timing display section T is provided in the
The date from "00" to "31" and the distinction between am and pm are displayed using "0" and "1" as the deadline timing. For example, when the price is reduced at 5 pm on November 29, "291" is displayed on the timing display portion T. By displaying the closeout timing in this way, it is possible to analyze the appropriate closeout timing by knowing the relationship between the closeout timing and the expiration date, and it can be useful for sales promotion as with the number of closeouts.

If the number of digits of the bar code is increased, both the date and the time can be accurately displayed as the cutoff timing. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the misreading prevention flag F3 may be placed before the closeout count information N.

By the way, in the above embodiment, the NON PUL 13
Although explained according to the digit bar code system, the present invention can be applied to the PLU 13-digit bar code system of FIG. 4 and the bar code system having the country code. In addition, PL of FIG.
In the case of U 13 digits, the JAN code (information about the product) is displayed on the product before price reduction and the price itself is not displayed, but the system stores the price etc. corresponding to the JAN code. Therefore, the present invention can be used in the same manner as in the case of the 13-digit NON PUL. In the case of 13 digits of PLU, the last 3 digits of the JAN code in the information display section A before price reduction is changed to the 3rd to 5th digits of the information display section B after price reduction.
The information display section B after the price reduction may be used as an appropriate information display section such as displaying as the AN code display section J3. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the OCR character is additionally written in the barcode has been described, but the case where the OCR character is not additionally written is also included in the scope of the present invention.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the case where the code is displayed as a bar code has been described, but the information corresponding to the price of the product is visualized and is readable by the code reading device. The present invention can be applied to any label with a code in which the code including the code is printed. That is, in addition to the above-described two-step or two-step bar code divided into two rows, a bar code in which code information before and after price reduction is arranged in one column, and in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b) are shown. The present invention also relates to a two-dimensional code in which code information is expanded vertically and horizontally, and a bar code displayed in a matrix shape in which bar codes are overlapped in two directions orthogonal to each other (see, for example, FIG. 1B of Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-64967). Can be applied. Furthermore, the present invention also applies when the coded information is printed only with OCR characters.

Next, a label issuing device for issuing the original selling price label L1 and the label L2 after the closeout will be described. 6, in the label issuing device 4, an input operation unit 41, a display unit 42, a label issuing unit 43, and a bar code reader 44 are connected to the microcomputer 40 via an interface (not shown). The label issuing unit 43 generally includes a thermal head and prints on a label made of thermal paper. The microcomputer 40 is the CPU 4
5 and a memory 46, and stores various programs such as label issuing and the product name and product code for each product.

As shown in FIG. 7, the memory 46 includes a closeout history storage section 46a for storing a history of price reduction (closeout history) for each product code. The closeout history storage unit 46a stores the number of closeouts, the closeout timing, the closeout width, and the number of issued labels for each product code. As the cut-off timing, the date and time read from the clock circuit of the microcomputer 40 when the label is issued are stored.

The bar code reader 44 is the original selling price label L1.
Or to read the bar code of label L2 after closing,
Of the code information read by the bar code reader 44, the product code Mc and the price P1 of FIG. 1A are stored in the memory 46 of FIG. 6 and used as they are as the data of the pre-price information display section A. For the parting form K and parting width P2 in FIG.
Is input from the printer and printed on the label L2 after the cutout. The "number of times of closing" in the second and subsequent closings is shown in Fig. 1 (c).
The information N on the number of times of close-up of the code display unit 1 of
(FIG. 6) reads, and C is added to the read close-out count information N.
The PU 45 adds "1" for calculation. In addition, the label L2 after the cut-out, in which the "number of cut-offs" is 2 or more, is used by being stuck on the label L2 after the previous close-up.

Next, the label L2 after the close-up shown in FIG.
The operation for issuing the will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. After entering the key processing routine in step S0, if the password is entered in step S1, step S
Go to 2. In step S2, it is determined whether or not the cut-out form and the cut-out value such as the cut-out width are fixed. If not, the process proceeds to step S3, and the original selling price label L1 of FIG. The bar code of the bar code display portion 1 of (c) is read by the bar code reader 44 of FIG. 6, the process proceeds to step S4 of FIG. 8 to input the closeout mode, and further advances to step S5 to input the closeout numerical value and step. Proceed to S7. When the issuing operation is performed in step S7, a predetermined number of the label L2 after the cutoff is issued in step S8, and the issued content of the label L2 after the cutout is determined by the cutout history storage unit 4 in FIG.
6a is stored. On the other hand, when the hold operation for fixing the parting form and the parting width is performed in step S2, the process proceeds to step S10 to input the parting form, and in the next step S11, input the parting-off numerical value, and then to the next step S12. Then, the same scanning as in step S3 is performed. After this, the process proceeds to steps S13 and S14,
The label is issued similarly to S8. After execution of step S14, the process returns to step S12, and it is possible to omit the input of the close-out form and the numerical value.

By the way, if the code display section 1 shown in FIG. 1C is read and stored at the cash register, a close-up product can be analyzed. However, as shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the 13-digit bar code label may not be able to display the detailed closeout timing, and when the closeout is performed multiple times, the closeout information before the last time is registered in the register. Detailed information cannot be obtained because it cannot be read by the side. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the closeout history storage unit 46 of FIG.
Since a is provided in the label issuing device 4, the detailed storage contents of the closeout history storage unit 46a are output as a closeout history, whereby the closeout product can be accurately analyzed.

The present invention is also applied to a product processing device in which a label issuing device 4 and a weighing device, a packaging machine or the like are integrated. The present invention also provides the label L after the close-up.
It is also applied to a product processing system having a register with a barcode reader and the like using 2 as an information medium.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the code contains information about the close-up price, the close-up price is entered in the register by reading the code, so you can prevent you from forgetting the discount at the cash register, and the information before the price cut for the product is coded. , The product name corresponding to the product code can be displayed or printed at the cash register, or the sales can be managed.

Further, if the coded label includes information on the number of times of closeouts and the timing of closeouts, the sales of the closeout products can be analyzed based on the information read at the cash register, which can be useful for sales promotion. .

If the code display portion and the visual recognition portion can be separated from each other by a cutting line, the code display portion can be attached on the original sale label or the like, and the visual recognition portion can be attached on a conspicuous part of the product. By appealing that the product is a close-up product, it is possible to promote sales.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a general original selling price label, FIG. 1B is a label with a code after a cutout showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
[Fig. 3] is a plan view showing a product form after a closeout.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a modified example of the coded label.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing another embodiment of the coded label.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing still another embodiment of the coded label.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an example of a two-dimensional code.

FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a label issuing device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a chart showing stored contents of a closeout history storage unit.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure for issuing a coded label after a closeout.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a display form of a conventional close-out product.

[Explanation of symbols]

L2: Label after close-up P1: Original price P2: Price information after cutoff N: Closing frequency information K: Closed form information 1: Code display 2: Visual part 3: Perforation

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The present invention relates to relates to a label issuing device or the like with a code that is attached to food products such as super.

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The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and is a label issuing device for issuing a label with a code which can prevent forgetting of a discount at a cash register for a closeout product.
The main purpose is to provide a storage device, a product processing device, and a product processing system .

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By the way, in the above embodiment, the NON PLU 13
Although explained according to the digit bar code system, the present invention can be applied to the PLU 13-digit bar code system of FIG. 4 and the bar code system having the country code. In addition, PL of FIG.
In the case of U 13 digits, the JAN code (information about the product) is displayed on the product before price reduction and the price itself is not displayed, but the system stores the price etc. corresponding to the JAN code. Therefore, the present invention can be used in the same manner as in the case of the 13-digit NON PUL. In the case of 13 digits of PLU, the last 3 digits of the JAN code in the information display section A before price reduction is changed to the 3rd to 5th digits of the information display section B after price reduction.
The information display section B after the price reduction may be used as an appropriate information display section such as displaying as the AN code display section J3. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the OCR character is additionally written in the barcode has been described, but the case where the OCR character is not additionally written is also included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. A label issuing unit for printing and issuing a label, a bar code reader for reading a bar code, and an input operation unit for inputting post-close price information of a product, wherein the label issuing unit is the original selling price. Label barcode above
A bar code including a product code and original price read by a bar code reader and price information after cut- off inputted from the input operation unit is printed and issued after printing the label after cut-out displayed on one label. A label issuing device characterized by the above.

2. The label issuing device according to claim 1 , wherein the coded label including the discontinuation type information is printed and issued in the post-discontinuation price information.

6. The label issuing device according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the original selling price is displayed on the original selling price label, and the label after the closeout is information regarding the price after the price reduction of the product. Code display that displays the bar code with a visual recognition unit that visually recognizes
A cutting line was provided to enable separation of the visible part and the visible part
Label issuing apparatus characterized by issuing a label from said label issuing unit.

7. The label issuing device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, including a bar code including an original price displayed on a label issued from the label issuing device and post-closeout price information. and read the bar code, and product processing system, characterized in that it comprises a register for discount merchandise on the basis of the read information.

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Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A coded label, which is coded information corresponding to the price of a product and includes a code including information readable by a code reading device, wherein information before price reduction and after price reduction for the product A coded label, wherein the code includes information about the price of the code. 2. The coded label according to claim 1, wherein the code includes information relating to an original selling price before price reduction as a part or all of the information before price reduction for the product. 3. The coded label according to claim 1, wherein the code includes information regarding a manner of price reduction and information regarding a manner of displaying a price reduction. 4. The coded label according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the code includes information regarding the number of price reductions. 5. The coded label according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the code includes information relating to timing of price reduction. 6. The coded label according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the coded label includes a code display section for displaying the code and a visual recognition section for allowing a consumer to visually recognize price-reduced price information. Attached label. 7. The coded label according to claim 6, wherein a cutting line is provided to allow the code display portion and the visual recognition portion to be separated from each other. 8. The code according to claim 1, wherein the code is a two-stage bar code in which code information before price reduction and after price reduction is divided into two stages or two lines, and a code before and after price reduction. A two-dimensional code in which information is expanded vertically and horizontally,
Alternatively, a coded label that is a barcode in which code information before and after price reduction is arranged in a line. 9. A label issuing device for printing and issuing the coded label according to any one of claims 1 to 8. 10. The label issuing device according to claim 9, further comprising a storage unit that stores a history of price reduction for each type of product. 11. The label issuing device according to claim 9, further comprising a code reading device for reading the code information of the label before the price reduction, and the code information read by the code reading device,
A label issuing device that issues the coded label based on information about a price reduction input from an input operation unit of the label issuing device. 12. A product processing device comprising the label issuing device according to claim 9, 10, or 11. 13. A product processing system using the coded label according to any one of claims 1 to 8 as an information medium.