VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine by which a purchaser of articles can visually confirm sale prices of the articles desired to purchase, can purchase a plurality of the articles only by a single input operation of article selection button information associated with the article desired to purchase in the same way as a normal purchase operation when the purchaser of the articles desires to purchase the plurality of articles in block and an operator of the vending machine can easily change setting of a sale of a single article or a sale of the plurality of articles. SOLUTION: A sale control part 12 reads a sale frequency setting value set in the article selection button information from a storage part 15 by every single input operation of the article selection button information judged that the sale is possible and makes a column corresponding to the article selection button information pay out the articles as that to which the input operation of the article selection button information is performed for the frequency based on the sale frequency setting value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI