Local Shop Selling Farmfoods Milk - is this allowed?

vampire-girl

Hi this is my first thread, so I apologize if in the wrong place.

I went to visit my mother today and she told me her local shop has an offer on milk and bread for £2, she didn't notice until home but it's farmfoods milk.

I was wondering surely this isn't allowed, as far as I am aware they don't supply to anyone else. I am guessing the shop owner goes to farmfoods and buys all the milk and puts in her shop (as farmfoods have on offer two for £1.60), she's making herself a profit on top.

If it is legal then I think it's cheeky and unfair to farmfoods.

Fire_Fox

Why is it cheeky or unfair? Farmfoods are making the same profit per bottle, probably selling more bottles since I don't suppose all those using the local shop would otherwise be going to Farmfoods.

Of course the store owner is making a profit, it is a business not a charity! Everything they sell will be purchased at one price and sold higher, nothing stopping you spending the time and petrol getting to Farmfoods if you want to pay £1.60 for two.

vampire-girl

Mainly because shops should be buying from wholesalers but no they don't want to pay the yearly charge, so they decide to go to shops. It's unfair as the general public are not allowed to wholesalers without paying.

I do shop at FarmFoods

dlusman

Nothing to stop you buying anything from anywhere and trying to sell it yourself- so why should this be any different ?

I read somewhere about a new Poundland store opening up beside a 99p store ( or something similar ) . The existing store had a special half price offer on a pile of stuff to try and keep their existing customers who might otherwise have gone to the new store. The new store went across the road - bought up all the stock and then sold it themselves for a profit.

JayJay14

The main problem is you don't know how long it was out of the fridge in between shops. Shops are required to have temperature records and by transfering from one to another most likely not under refridgeration there is no continuity of records.
There could be environmental heath issues at the very least.

hilstep2000

People buy in charity shops and then resell on Ebay! Can't blame someone who is trying to make a living.

Fire_Fox

vampire-girl wrote: »

Mainly because shops should be buying from wholesalers but no they don't want to pay the yearly charge, so they decide to go to shops. It's unfair as the general public are not allowed to wholesalers without paying.

I do shop at FarmFoods

You previously said it was unfair to Farmfoods, what has that got to do with being unfair that the general public can't go to the wholesalers?

Why 'should' they be shopping at wholesalers? All businesses aim to purchase their stock at the cheapest prices or from a convenient supplier, if Farmfoods is cheaper why 'should' they use the wholesaler? Why does it matter to you where the milk comes from, how EXACTLY has this been to the detriment of any customer? They would have to charge more for the milk if they purchased at a higher price!

You can shop at a wholesaler if you start up your own business. Or you can go to a farm shop and buy direct. You sound almost bitter or jealous instead of supportive of small local businesses which are really struggling in this financial climate.

vampire-girl

Fire Fox am not bitter or jealous thankyou! and thanks to JayJay14 about health points

dlusman

JayJay14 wrote: »

The main problem is you don't know how long it was out of the fridge in between shops. Shops are required to have temperature records and by transfering from one to another most likely not under refridgeration there is no continuity of records.
There could be environmental heath issues at the very least.

No difference to the local store transporting from a local dairy / supplier or transporting from Farmfoods

DCFC79

Nothing wrong with it OP, its perfectly fine.

WickedWolfie

vampire-girl wrote: »

Hi this is my first thread, so I apologize if in the wrong place.

I went to visit my mother today and she told me her local shop has an offer on milk and bread for £2, she didn't notice until home but it's farmfoods milk.

I was wondering surely this isn't allowed, as far as I am aware they don't supply to anyone else. I am guessing the shop owner goes to farmfoods and buys all the milk and puts in her shop (as farmfoods have on offer two for £1.60), she's making herself a profit on top.

If it is legal then I think it's cheeky and unfair to farmfoods.

You may well be making an assumption about where the local shop gets its milk which is inaccurate.

I have occassionally seen milk with the "wrong" label on sale in shop chains, and indeed "big chain" labelled milk on sale in local shops. This occurs when the same dairy supplies more than one chain of shops and there is a glitch in the supply chain.

Even if your suspicions are actually correct, if your mum thought that the bread and milk offer was a good one and decent value, why does it matter where the local shop sources its supplies from?