Fruit & veg being sold in bowls these days scam?

Azari

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

What I consider no further consideration needed ...

And yet you did consider it further and even went to the trouble of making a comment.

antrobus

peachyprice wrote: »

It's not dishonest and it's not a scam. Nowhere is it written that fruit & veg has to be sold by weight.
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Actually it is.

Simply typing the phrase 'fruit & veg has to be sold by weight' into Google brings up a whole host of links to info from Trading Standards that state that most fruit and vegetables must be sold by weight either net or gross.

You'd probably need to work your way through the details of, The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Cheese, Fish, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Meat and Poultry) Order 1984, to work out whether or not a particular retailer was complying with the law.

antrobus

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

....I'd even suspect this practice falls foul of weights and measures legislation since no weight is ever displayed.....

I think you might possibly be correct.

See - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1315/contents/made

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Its up to the individual buyer .. you might find one person living on their own will want to pick a 'mixed' bowl of fruit/veg and if they are a £1 a bowl.. will make their budgeting a lot easier..as it is a set price, rather than one that could change week in week out if going by kg weight.

Its like a pre mixed bag of salad... if you worked out the true price of that, the bags are way over priced, but for convienience you know where you are price wise, and you are getting the variety you want..

would I buy buy the bowl full???? Yes if I was living on my own...

miss_scrooge

One of the market stalls in my area sells bowls of fruit and they have scales aswell I bought a bowl of satsumas and it filled up half a carrier bag for a pound and it's cheaper in market then supermarket and get more for your money.They have been using bowls for years.

pmduk

I've bought the bowls of fruit and salad from a local market before. It's easier for me, living on my own and quite probably cheaper.

Money-Saving-King

Azari wrote: »

And yet you did consider it further and even went to the trouble of making a comment.

At least I didn't start a thread about it!

peachyprice

antrobus wrote: »

I think you might possibly be correct.

See - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1315/contents/made

Or not?...........

There shall be exempted from the requirements of paragraph (3) above a pre-packed collection of not more than eight articles of countable produce, if the container is such that all the articles can be clearly seen by a prospective buyer.

antrobus

peachyprice wrote: »

Or not?...........

Exactly. Like I said, you'd have to "work your way through the details of, The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Cheese, Fish, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Meat and Poultry) Order 1984, to work out whether or not a particular retailer was complying with the law".

But at least you now know that there are regulations governing this sort of thing, and that your previously dismissive statement - "Nowhere is it written that fruit & veg has to be sold by weight" - was not quite right.

Azari

antrobus wrote: »

Exactly. Like I said, you'd have to "work your way through the details of, The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Cheese, Fish, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Meat and Poultry) Order 1984, to work out whether or not a particular retailer was complying with the law".

But at least you now know that there are regulations governing this sort of thing, and that your previously dismissive statement - "Nowhere is it written that fruit & veg has to be sold by weight" - was not quite right.

I would imagine there is also some investigation required to determine exactly what constitutes 'pre-packed'.