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Abstract

A method for keeping goods and, if necessary, supplementing them to showcases in a shopping floor is disclosed. Also an apparatus to be used for practicing this method is disclosed. A group of temporary goods keeping carts each having multi-level shelves are disposed on standby at a temporary goods holding place in a store warehouse leading to a shopping floor, good receiving carts brought into the warehouse and the temporary goods keeping carts are moved to working tables within the warehouse, where the goods on the goods receiving carts are classified and accommodated in goods holding trays, thereafter the trays are placed on the respective shelves in the temporary goods keeping carts, then the temporary goods keeping carts are returned to the temporary goods holding place, subsequently goods supplementing carts each having shelves at a plurality of levels are brought to the temporary goods holding place, the trays on the respective shelves in the temporary goods keeping carts are transferred onto the respective shelves in the goods supplementing carts, then the goods supplementing carts are brought to the shopping floor, or the temporary goods keeping carts are directly brought to the shopping floor, and the goods in the trays on the respective shelves in the goods supplementing carts or in the temporary goods keeping carts are displayed in showcases in the shopping floor.

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First Claim