Patent ID: 6990473

Claim:
An information management system for managing information concerning one or a plurality of commodities, each of said commodities having an information peculiar to the commodity attached thereto, said information management system comprising a commodity exhibition shelf on which the commodity is arranged, the commodity exhibition shelf including: a storage unit which stores information representing a predetermined condition for displaying information peculiar to a commodity and a guide concerning said commodity, in association with the kind of said commodity; an input unit which reads information peculiar to said commodity, which information is attached to said commodity, the information being read using a reading scheme; a control unit which collates the information peculiar to said commodity read by said input with the information stored in said storage unit, and generates data for displaying the guide concerning said commodity, based on the information stored in said storage unit, when the information peculiar to said commodity read by said input unit matches with the information stored in said storage unit as a result of the collation and the predetermined condition associated with the kind of said commodity is satisfied; a timer which measures time; and a display unit which displays the guide concerning said commodity based on the data generated by said control unit; wherein said control unit compares the time measured by said timer with information included in the information representing the predetermined condition, when generating data for displaying the guide concerning said commodity.