On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:52:39 +0100, "tim \(not at home\)"
wrote:
>> Of course, there are some shops that will agree to honour any shelf
>> price or even to match the shelf price of any other store in the area
>> - but that is for marketing and goodwill reasons, not because they are
>> obliged to do so.
>
>No, it's so that they don't have Trading Standards coming in and charging
>them with a "misleading pricing" offence.
There would be no chance whatsoever of that happening in the case of
one or two discrepencies.
>The OP should complain to TS. Whilst Cynic is correct to say that they
>don't contractually have to sell at that price, the shop manager is
>completely wrong in saying that the shop cannot be held *criminally*
>responsible for the wrong price on the shelf if it can be shown that the
>problem is systemic.
That's an *awfully* big "if" Tim!
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Cynic
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