Patent ID: 8096476

Claim:
An article sales data processing apparatus configured to acquire article sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the article sales data on a display unit, the apparatus comprising: a first reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a first medium attached to the article; a second reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a second medium attached to the article; a counting unit configured to separately count the number of the article sales data for each article, the number of the article sales data including a first number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a second number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the second reading unit; and a control unit configured to perform a region division mode to divide a screen of the display unit, and display, in one region of the divided screen, a first article name and the first number of the article identified by the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and, in another region of the divided screen, a second article name and the second number of the article identified by the article identification code read by the second reading unit.