Farmers markets selling cheap cakes from Home bargain store.

[joko]

i assume most people here have heard of and use the farmers markets that travel the country.

we have one here every now and again, but i was surprised to find one stall - set up with lots of wicker baskets, red checked material, trying to look all homemade and countrified - selling 'homemade' cakes, for £1 or 2 ....that they had clearly bought from home bargains store!

i knew they looked familiar because i buy them all the time... and i bet the seller was horrified to find they'd been allocated a stall on the pedestrianised bit literally right outside a HB store! haha... so to be doubly certain, when i went into HB i checked and i was then 100% certain they are the same cakes - of a least 4 different types, costing about 50p for 6.
people expect something homemade and a bit special when they buy from there, so i thought this was a bit naughty.
obviously they can sell whatever they want and if people want to buy them, then its a case of caveat emptor

but I was half tempted to confront them, or stand in front of the stall telling every passer by - haha but i wasn't that bothered, more disappointed, so didn't of course

but now i'm wondering - is there a quality control place for them i could send a quick email to or something?
i also thought of sending a quick email to our local paper, so people realise

as i say, i am not fuming or losing sleep over it, so not going to go to any lengths, but an email takes a few minutes.

thanks

[B00]

If nothing else, it's cheeky innit?

[Nibble]

The farmers' markets will be licenced by your local council....

Our farmers' market dosn't travel the country btw, it's local farmers who come to sell their stock.

[ladybirder]

You could have a word with your local Trading Standards Officer and see what he/she has to say. But if they are not passing them off as locally or home made ... probably not much you can do except let people know, possibly via your local paper.

[4candles]

Contact Trading Standards - it's their job.

[welshlibranr]

naughty of them!....have a word in the ear of Trading Standards!...