To widely respond to an inquiry in relation to locations of stores.

A POS device (10) for conducting sales management at a store comprises a storage unit (12) storing map information including map data indicating locations of a plurality of stores; a map output unit (13) outputting a guide map on the basis of the map data in the storage unit (12): a retrieval accepting unit (14) presenting selection information to a user to select names of stores to be retrieval targets of the locations and accepting the names of the stores from the user; and a retrieval processing unit (15) selecting the map data corresponding to the name of the stores accepted at the retrieval accepting unit (14) and supplying the map data to the map output unit (13).

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