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Sales management data such as sold product number data, sales data, unsold product number data, unit price data and sales condition data of a vending machine and individual columns are stored. When a given column and given sales management data are selected, the given column is displayed on a column

Sales management data such as sold product number data, sales data, unsold product number data, unit price data and sales condition data of a vending machine and individual columns are stored. When a given column and given sales management data are selected, the given column is displayed on a column display unit, and the sales management data of the given column is displayed on a data display unit. The sales management data can be set or updated. When a failure occurs in the vending machine, a failure position is displayed on the data display unit.

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A control apparatus for a vending machine having therein a plurality of columns, comprising: storage means for storing sales management data for controlling total selling in the vending machine and selling in each of the columns, said storage means having a failure table for storing failure position

A control apparatus for a vending machine having therein a plurality of columns, comprising: storage means for storing sales management data for controlling total selling in the vending machine and selling in each of the columns, said storage means having a failure table for storing failure positions, said sales management data consisting of a plurality of management items which include at least one first management item associated with the entire vending machine and with each columm, and at least one second management item associated with each column, each of said at least one first management item having a value variable with selling by the vending machine, each of said at least one second management item being variable settable; mode selecting means for selecting any one of a management control mode where said at least one first management item is displayed, a setting mode where a value of each of said at least one second management item is settable, and a failure check mode where check is made as to whether a failure occurs; column selecting means for selecting any of the entire vending machine and an arbitrary one of the columns; management item selecting means for selecting an arbitrary one of management items of the sale management data, said mode selecting means, said column selecting means and said management item selecting means being arranged to be operable by an operator, respectively; a column display unit for displaying data indicative of a column selected by said column selecting means; a data display for displaying the sales management data; control means for reading out from said storage means data associated with the item selected by said management item selecting means and with one of the entire vending machine and the column selected by said column selecting means, to cause said data display unit to display the thus read data and to cause said column display unit to display the data indicative of the selected column when the management control mode is selected, said control means causing said column display unit and said data display unit to display the failure position in accordance with said failure table when the failure check mode is selected; and setting means for setting a value of each of the at least one second management item in said storage means, said control means supplying to and storing in said storage means the thus set value asssociated with one of the second management item selected by said management item selecting means and with the column selected by said column selecting means when the setting mode is selected.