Abstract: In order for various styles of selling items in stores, an item take-out apparatus from which a user takes out an item is provides with: a storage unit that stores items therein; a plurality of take-out ports through which the user takes out an item from inside the item take-out apparatus; and a transport unit configured to extract an item from the storage unit and transport the item to any of the plurality of take-out ports. The transport unit transports an item designated by the user to a take-out port, through which the user takes out the item, among the plurality of take-out ports.

Abstract: Conventionally, there exists a problem of incurring suspicion of a customer, if a demonstration is performed under a mismatch condition between an implemented state of a certain function in a personal computer and actual availability of the function. Therefore a program is provided executed by a computer capable of executing a first program and a second program including the steps of performing an execution decision procedure for deciding whether the first program can be executed normally, and performing an installation procedure for installing the second program, when the first program is decided to be executable normally in the decision procedure.