Abstract: When any one of the commodities displayed in commodity image display areas is sold out during an operation of a vending machine, a substitute commodity for a sold-out commodity is selected from among commodities other than the sold-out commodity, and a display of a commodity image display area including the sold-out commodity is replaced with a display of a commodity image display area including a commodity image of the selected substitute commodity.

Abstract: On a sales image displayed on a LCD of a vending machine, there are set multiple commodity sample display areas and a commodity information display area. When the sales image is displayed, if any one of reduced size commodity images displayed in the commodity sample display areas is selected, an act size commodity image of the selected commodity is displayed in the commodity information display area.

Abstract: When any one of the commodities displayed in commodity image display areas is sold out during an operation of a vending machine, a substitute commodity for a sold-out commodity is selected from among commodities other than the sold-out commodity, and a display of a commodity image display area including the sold-out commodity is replaced with a display of a commodity image display area including a commodity image of the selected substitute commodity.

Abstract: A vending machine display system includes a public server for allowing a delivering computer to periodically upload news data, a news server for downloading the updated news data from the public server, processing the updated news data into a form available for delivering to a vending machine and storing a prepared news data, and a vending machine having means for downloading the prepared news data from the news server and displaying news on a news displaying region of a display. The vending machine stops displaying the news on the news displaying region if it has been failing to access the news server more than a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A vending machine which can communicate with a host computer by establishing dial-up connection to a predetermined access point, includes a control device which issues an inquiry to a communication device about all or a part of necessary information for dial-up connection, and establishes dial-up connection according to the information received from the communication device.