A commodity holding device

The invention provides a commodity holding device capable of reducing wires. The device comprises a conveyor belt, which is arranged annularly in a tensioned manner in the front-back direction and moves in a manner that an upper surface moves forward when a motor sends driving force via a transmission mechanism; a commodity holding control unit which drives the motor to move the conveyor belt whenreceiving a delivery command so as to convey commodities carried on the upper surface of the conveyor forward successively to deliver the foremost commodity; a delivery detection switch which detectsthe movement of the conveyor belt and sends detection signals to the commodity holding control unit and detects where a foremost commodity exists on the conveyor belt and sends detection signals to the commodity holding control unit; a limiting unit which makes the detection about whether a foremost commodity exists performed by the detection mechanism invalid in a period from the moment when thedelivery command is receiv