Automated vending arrangement with cashless payment process renders cash superfluous for transactions, eliminates cash registers, requires fewer staff, secures goods against theft

摘要

The automated vending arrangement has an input region with an automatic registration device (1) for reading in the data for a cashless means of payment and customer identification, at least one automatic vending machine (3-11) with a device for further reading of the identification characteristic and for controlled output of goods and a central computer (2) for data communications, storage and control. An Independent claim is also included for a method of operating an automated shop.