Lidl - price discrepancy / refusing to sell at price marked on product

mumOf2wonderfulkids

toxic1990 wrote: »

It is true that they have to remove the incorrect price from the shelf within a reasonable time.


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when i worked in retail we would always remove the item immediately and not put back on for at least 24 hours although i never found out if that was ''law'' or just a rule that we had

gordikin

Why bother with a marker pen when you can very easily print your own barcode labels?...it's not that difficult...if you want to take your chances in Court!

woody01

I said that i was pretty sure he had to sell them to me for the value marked on them or remove the items from sale

I'm 100% certain you are wrong.

toxic1990

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

when i worked in retail we would always remove the item immediately and not put back on for at least 24 hours although i never found out if that was ''law'' or just a rule that we had

Yeah that should be the policy in shops, be im sure you are aware, working in retail things that need to be done straight away can be delayed by annoying customers. Its basically "remove it at the first possible chance, you have been informed of the mistake, if you don't correct it ASAP than you are breaking the law"

Most big shops especially supermarkets will tends to give you the mistaken price, especially if its a low valued item.

It is amusing the amount of people who insist that the item must be sold at the marked price, even the supervisor at my first job thought it was law, I had to bring in my text book to prove it.

mumOf2wonderfulkids

toxic1990 wrote: »

It is amusing the amount of people who insist that the item must be sold at the marked price, even the supervisor at my first job thought it was law, I had to bring in my text book to prove it.

oh I know what you mean there lol

i completed 2 NVQ's in retail, so i'm not so easy to fob off when I know what I'm talking about lol (although in most other areas i can be completely wrong and STILL insist I'm right, but then that's just me being a woman )

ses6jwg

Where I used to work, people would take "reduced" 99p stickers off some items, stick them on £10 items and attempt to have them for 99p at the till. Kids also used to go around the store moving stickers.

They then kicked up a massive fuss when the manager refused the sale and always threatened Trading Standards etc, nothing ever happend.

Paul_Varjak

Of course they can refuse to sell them to. In fact, they can refuse to deal business with anyone at any price!

The marked price is merely an 'Invitation to Treat'. You, in effect, make an offer to buy at that price when you take the goods to the checkout. The merchant can choose to accept that off or not!

So, although you cannot force them to sell it at the price marked on the box, they may commit a criminal offence by labelling their products with the wrong price. This is hardly likely to be the case though - just a matter of simple error!

woody01

i completed 2 NVQ's in retail

Richard Branson should be scared then:rotfl:

Darksun

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

Of course they can refuse to sell them to. In fact, they can refuse to deal business with anyone at any price!

They can't refuse if it would class as sex, sexual orientation, or racial discrimination (possibly on some other discriminatory grounds as well). But I'm just nitpicking

mumOf2wonderfulkids

woody01 wrote: »

Richard Branson should be scared then:rotfl:

he needn't be too scared - i work in social housing now lol! :rotfl::D