Seiko Epson Corporation

Yasuhiro Nomura

Seiji Kimura

Eiji Natori

Satoshi Nebashi

Yoichi Wakai

Koichi Takahashi

Yoshiiku Sendai

Tetsuo Yamagishi

A store management system has a merchandise information management apparatus which transmits merchandise information, a merchandise tag which is provided with a first display, and receives the merchandise information which is transmitted from the merchandise information management apparatus to the merchandise tag itself and displays the merchandise information, and a display apparatus for display rack which is provided with a second display, and has a function of receiving the merchandise information which is transmitted from the merchandise information management apparatus to the display apparatus itself and displaying the merchandise information, and checking the merchandise information which is displayed on the display apparatus itself and the merchandise information which is displayed on the merchandise tag by communicating with the merchandise tag.

Store management system and store management method

A shelf tag to be attached to a display shelf for displaying commercial products, includes: a commercial product name and a price of the commercial product and a dimensional value indicating a display position of the commercial product to be displayed in a row direction on the display shelf printed on the tag.

Shelf tag, shelf tag manufacturing system, method and program for manufacturing shelf tag and storage medium

A card issuing system that issues a shopping assisting card that provides support in purchasing an item includes a database that stores customer information including a language used by a customer as registered information, item information including items sold at a store as registered information, store information including an item recommended by the store among the items included in the item information as registered information, and format data registered corresponding to a plurality of languages and used for producing the shopping assisting card, a data extracting unit that extracts format data corresponding to the language used by the customer and the item recommended by the store from the database, a data producing unit that produces printing data for the shopping assisting card introducing the item recommended by the store in the language used by the customer based on the format data, and a printer that prints the shopping assisting card based on the printing data.

Shopping assisting card, card issuing system, card issuing method, card issuing program, and storage medium

An information medium collecting unit receives and collects information media to be recycled. An inspection unit inspects the information media collected at the information medium collecting unit. An electronic-data recording unit transfers and records electronic data stored in a storage unit onto the information media that are determined to be recyclable as a result of the inspection. A product holding unit holds the information media on which the electronic data is recorded. A product discharging unit discharges the information media held in the product holding unit, in accordance with a distribution request. Since the information media collected at a vending machine are processed inside of the vending machine for recycling and are turned into products inside of the vending machine for direct sale, information media to be discarded are reduced and thus cost to customers to obtain information can be reduced.

Electronic data distribution apparatus and distribution method

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Suwa, Japan

Yasuhiro Nomura