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Would it be illegal to buy in bulk from Tesco to sell on?

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  • System
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    Have you ever seen the horde of small shopkeepers descending on Lidl's at the start of a new offer? They can do to shelves what locusts do to crops (and a hell of a lot faster)
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  • shaun_from_Africa
    shaun_from_Africa Posts: 12,858 Forumite
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    Have you ever seen the horde of small shopkeepers descending on Lidl's at the start of a new offer? They can do to shelves what locusts do to crops (and a hell of a lot faster)

    Eat everything in sight and leave big piles of crap and loads of partially eaten dead bodies scattered around?
    What branch of Lidl do you use?
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,392 Forumite
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    shaun_from_Africa wrote: »
    Eat everything in sight and leave big piles of crap and loads of partially eaten dead bodies scattered around?
    What branch of Lidl do you use?

    Sounds like Freshers' Week. :rotfl:
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  • Jeff_Bridges_hair
    Jeff_Bridges_hair Posts: 6,330 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    What did the woman on the customer service desk actually say to you?


    Doesnt matter what they said. They dont have to sell to you if they dont want too.

    You should know this flyboy
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  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »
    Doesnt matter what they said. They dont have to sell to you if they dont want too.

    You should know this flyboy

    I made no mention of what they can or can't do. I was curious, what's wrong with that?s-rolleyes.gif
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  • mattyprice4004
    mattyprice4004 Posts: 7,492 Forumite
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    I made no mention of what they can or can't do. I was curious, what's wrong with that?s-rolleyes.gif

    Because you're not allowed to be curious. End of. :p
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    mattyprice4004 wrote: »
    Because you're not allowed to be curious. End of. :p

    It certainly appears that way. ;)

    But I suspect that Jeff just wanted to start an argument where there wasn't one. ;)
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  • Shelldean
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    Funny i wondering this the only the other day.
    We was in farm foods were Hovis is 3 for £2, meaning a decent saving on normal hovis price of appox £1.15 a loaf.
    We got our 3 loaves when a man walked up and filled his trolley and I do mean filled. Left very little on the shelf. OH and I assumed it was for a small shop, as it was way too many for anything else.
  • arcon5
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    Shelldean wrote: »
    Funny i wondering this the only the other day.
    We was in farm foods were Hovis is 3 for £2, meaning a decent saving on normal hovis price of appox £1.15 a loaf.
    We got our 3 loaves when a man walked up and filled his trolley and I do mean filled. Left very little on the shelf. OH and I assumed it was for a small shop, as it was way too many for anything else.

    My parents used to do this a long time ago -- sadly enough it was for personal use and they had a second freezer just filled with loafs of bread :rotfl:
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    Out of interest, berbastrike, which law do you think might have prevented you from doing this? Obviously Tesco can refuse to sell to you, or anyone, if they so wish but your question did specifically ask whether what you were doing was illegal.
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