Product sales equipment and product sales method

Abstract

To provide a commodity selling device capable of actively promoting an information transmission medium.SOLUTION: According to the present invention, a commodity selling device is used to sell a photograph seals as an article. The commodity selling device includes: a commodity production part for producing a photograph seal by generating a photographic image of a user, generating an edited image edited using the photographic image on the basis of an editing operation performed by the user, and printing the edited image on a sticker sheet; and a storage part that is provided on at least one of a front surface, a back surface, and a side surface of the commodity selling device, and that stores therein an information transmission medium related to at least one of the photograph seal and the commodity selling device and that is configured to make the information transmission medium visually recognizable from the outside.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Claims

1. A product sales device that sells photo stickers as products to customers, The product production department is responsible for taking photos of customers, generating images, and printing those images onto sticker sheets to create photo stickers. A housing section forming the entire back of the aforementioned product sales device, which houses an information transmission medium for conveying information to persons other than the purchaser, suspended in an internal storage space, and which houses the medium so that it can be seen from the outside through a transparent cover having a flat shape in the center and L-shaped cross-sections at both left and right corners, A product sales device equipped with a vending machine.

2. The product sales device according to claim 1, wherein the information transmission medium is a sheet member that functions as a poster relating to at least one of a photographic sticker and a product sales device.

3. The housing section is provided opposite the transparent cover and has a light-emitting section that irradiates light toward the transparent cover side. The product sales device according to claim 1 or 2, configured to accommodate the information transmission medium between the transparent cover and the light-emitting part.

4. The product sales device according to claim 3, wherein the light-emitting section is configured by arranging a plurality of light-emitting units, each composed of a plurality of LEDs, in a predetermined direction, and is configured to emit light individually as a unit.

5. A product sales device that sells photo stickers, produced by photographing a purchaser, generating a photographic image, and printing the photographic image onto a sticker backing, to the purchaser as a product, has its entire back surface formed as a storage area, and an information transmission medium that conveys information about at least one of the photo stickers and the product sales device to a person other than the purchaser is housed in the storage area in a suspended state within the internal storage space, and is housed so as to be visible from the outside through a transparent cover that has a flat shape in the center and L-shaped cross-sections on both the left and right corners, thereby leading a person other than the purchaser to act as a purchaser.

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