Patent ID: 7953635

Claim:
A merchandise sales data processing apparatus, comprising: a checkout counter which has a commodity placement area; a display placed upwards in a top-plate surface of the checkout counter; a touch panel placed in the display; a wireless communication unit that executes data communications with wireless tags respectively attached to articles and thereby acquires stored data from the wireless tags; a control unit that executes display control to display figure images of the articles acquired from a memory unit in X-axis and Y-axis directions in a display area of the display based on the stored data acquired by the wireless communication unit, each of the figure images being displayed toward a salesperson, a process for displaying on the display, a commodity registration screen that enables a selection of each article by the operation at the touch panel, and a process for executing a merchandise sales data process containing a settlement process, based on commodity codes contained in the stored data acquired by the wireless communication unit and the commodity codes of the articles each selected by the operation at the touch panel, wherein the control unit displays the figure images arranged in the X-axis and Y-axis directions in reverse direction toward a customer without position change in accordance with a predetermined operation on the touch panel.