"Cynic" wrote in message
news:vie5u3lslsv8lvvi6oeabdv9lorvso3ddn@4ax.com...
> 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!
Not when evidence that the manager said "the shelf labels are nothing to do
with the shop" it isn't. (Of course, the TSO will have to witness this
statement themselves).
tim
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