Actually, he has NO legal obligation to honour the shelf price, which I still find extraordinary. However, in practice I've yet to find a supermarket that refuses to honour the shelf label price, although the glaring daggers one sometimes receives in return are unpleasant. The biggest problem I encountered was about two years ago in a branch of Aldi and on that occasion I actually complained in writing to head office (Aldi don't have any email.)
MM
No, I don't. I just need my trusty computer and Amazon. No rip-offs there.
MM
Walk into Kwik-Save - Somerfield - Co-Op and they are notorious for leaving all the special offer signs up, then when you get to the till charging you full price.
As above, it could be sheer idleness - or it could be the manager's idea. Sort of like Argos Area Managers demanding they putt defective back out in the hope the next one loses the receipt.
At the Co-op at least, special offer signs have an expiry date, in tiny print, that they rely on customers not bothering to read, and not noticing being charged normal price amongst their other shopping.
Some will notice, and some won't; it's these latter customers that makes it worthwhile to keep the signs up a bit longer.
usually cheaper to honour the shelf price[1] than face a complaint from Trading Standards about displaying a false or misleading price indication contrary to the Price Marking Order.
Owain
[1] at least on oranges, maybe not on ipads.
Tesco one do as well. I don't visit other supermarkets enough to know if their offer tickets also have an expiry date. I use that date to judge if it's worth buying something now or next week depending on when the offer ends.
That's one thing I don't like about EPOS's. Unless you stand there watching the display (not packing...) you don't know what you are being charged. I guess one can now use the self (unexpected item in packing area) service checkouts. I don't like them as they are far to slow and I'd rather the checkout operators kept their jobs rather than bunp up the supermarkets profits.
No, but once the price is agreed by both parties it is binding.
The question is when that agreement takes place, when the item is put through the till (as in the case being discused), or when the cashier asks for the money?
MBQ
It's Station Lane - which looks to be a few newish houses and this small office thing.
Would there be a part?
Anyway ,can any one confirm that in France at one time coins that had been issued during the German occupation or by the Vichy French remained in circulation but were worth less than their more modern equivalents. I recall some being handed over in change to a Pal on a school trip to France in the late 1960's. They felt a lot different to the normal ones being made of aluminium and the accompanying French teacher heard the comments and intervened ,as he was a French national he easily entered into a lively discussion with the vendor and the coins were substituted. It may have just been the case that the value was the same but like Scottish currency in most of England it was only begrudgingly accepted and the Vendor was trying to unload some. The teacher pointed out that the coins carried the legend Etat Française and normal ones would have République Française .
G.Harman
And what about the staff that are on the take?
Theres one in a shop near me. When you are buying only one item she puts 5p through the till manually instead of scanning the item and pockets the rest for herself.
Not when I'm shopping there she doesn't:-)
Nightjar wrote: [snip]
One market trader in Stockport was known for displaying fresh produce at the front of the stall and selling out of date stock from the back of the pile. I recall him having a fit at me for choosing my own fruit from the front (which left holes showing the manky rubbish behind the carefully constructed wall of fresh fruit).
Yes, completely unlike the UK where vendors never rip off tourists. The robbing git who charged a German schoolgirl £15 for an ice cream in London never existed, apparently.
It is "unagreed" as soon as I query the amount displayed on the till!
MM
In the early 60s, the French made a killing with tourists after they introduced the New Franc - which was worth ten times as much as the old one. Thus a 10NF note was equal to an old 100 franc note.
Tourists not in the know who changed large denomination notes were likely to receive what they perceived as the correct change but, when they tried to spend the change, found it was only worth one tenth of its value!
It was 100 to 1, not 10.
And until the Euro had to be used, property prices were normally given in Anciens Francs...
The problem with buying a large number of items from, say, a supermarket is that I can't remember the displayed prices of everything in the trolley. They could easily charge something different without me noticing, especially on a low value item.
Agreed.
I remember getting some cash from an ATM. I was feeling quite ill at the time and omitted to collect the money from the drawer. I realized what I had done quite quickly and returned only to find someone helping themselves to the cash. They gave it to me without a fuss but the look of disappointment on their face proved they were going to nick it.
=20
An Icelanndic colleague in teh 1980s told me that Icelanders on holiday in = Rissia used to change Icelandic kronor for Roubles on the black market. Th= e russians thought that the Scaninavian kronor were worth about the same (N= ,S Dk were Iceland kronor were about 100x less valuable IIRC). I thought t= his was quite risky.
Robert
I'm selling something on Gumtree for £85, and some cheeky so and so offered me £50 to take it off my hands. You can guess what my reply was.
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