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mo786uk wrote: »

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Does a shop have to display prices?

The Price Marking Order 2004 is the legislation that makes shops have to display prices for goods. Prices must include VAT and be clearly legible. Items do not have to be individually price (i.e they can use a price list) but the prices should be available so that the customer does not have to ask for them.



I have been reliably informed, today, by Trading Standards, that shops DO NOT have to display any prices at all! I couldn't believe my ears - "Does that mean that there could be a supermarket then, without any prices anywhere?" The response "Well, it wouldn't work very efficiently!" My response "But in theory... this would not be illegal?" "No". So... shops do not have to display prices! She went away TWICE, to check the facts! I am horrified. I went into a store last week and picked up a £5.99 toy, which went through the till at £8.99 The Supervisor (huffing and puffing) came with me to where I had picked it up and reliably informed me that it was "different to the others" - yes, it was a different colour, and on very close inspection, a little larger. "But", I asked, "where should it have been?" For on the whole display, there was NO £8.99 shelf price!!!! "Well, we don't have to price everything, you know!" "Ummmm I believe you do!" So, today I checked and she was right and I was wrong... so basically, any retailer can simply say "Oh - a customer must have moved it - it's in the wrong place". Worrying!