To facilitate attachment and detachment of a connecting plate to an upper flapper while preventing detachment of the connecting plate attached to the upper flapper so that a large sized commodity can be positively held by the upper flapper when selectively using the same rack to sell a normal sized paper pack, a can, a bottle commodity, and the large sized commodity. The direct loading type commodity storing rack has a vending mechanism stacking and storing various types of commodities such as paper packs, cans, bottles, and PET bottles in commodity storing columns housed in an interior of a cabinet, and having a vending motor, a lower flapper, and the upper flapper corresponding to each commodity storing column. Commodities stacked and stored in the commodity storing column is dropped and delivered in an order from the lowermost commodity by projecting the lower flapper and the upper flapper into a commodity passage by drive of the vending motor. It is provided with the connecting plate detachably attached to the upper flapper of the vending mechanism, a length of an engagement pawl of the connecting plate is set longer than a length of an engagement hole formed in the upper flapper, and detachment of the connecting plate attached to the upper flapper due to vibration or the like is prevented.