Multipack cans

[ThisSpace]

I have often wondered what would be the answer to this:

Your (cheeky) local newsagent stocks multipack cans in his fridge. Perhaps he had no time to go to the cash and carry and so went to the nearest supermarket to stock up on his cokes.

Next time you go in you notice that he's selling these multipack cans but with a price increase of about 20p, say.

We all know that multipack cans are obviously marked around the lip of the can, and that somewhere it also says "Part of a multipack, must not be sold separately".

So, if the newsagent has a price tag of 60p on a multipack can that has 35p written on it, could I not just slip him the 35p and push off?

[Loosehead]

He does not have to sell at the marked price. Basic tennet of retail: "The management reserve the right to refuse service". When he bought them he was the customer what he chooses to do with them after is up to him. The "Multipak" entity has no basis in law and is merely a vehicle for the maker to sell in blocks as they see fit. "Not to be sold separately" is merely a manufactuerers desire.

[SimonGent]

When I was at Uni, one of the blokes on my courseused to phone Coca Cola and tell them where he'd seen the multipack cans being sold separately.

Apparently he used to get a load of free vouchers sent through and Coca Cola would visit the store to investigate

[pagey]

Cans on buy-one-get-one-free in supermarkets are often cheaper than wholesale.

Loosehead, I believed that a price on a item for sale constitutes a legal offer.

I wouldn't pay the 60p in principal.

[dannydingbat]

To deal with this issue, a shopkeeper has drinks for sale. He puts them in the fridge with a large sign advertising the price. A customer sees it and offers to buy.

The shopkeeper does not have to sell the drinks if he does not want to. At that stage there is no contract.

The shopkeeper is making what lawyers call an 'invitation to treat', an invitation to the customer to make him an offer.
So the customer cannot insist on buying the drinks at the advertised price. If the shopkeeper has put an unusually low price on it - deliberately or by mistake - he can refuse to do a deal with the customer.

[gina32]

a shop keepker is not allowed by law to sell goods for a higher price than is on the product

[Loosehead]

Gina you are wrong he can sell at any price he wants he can sell to only one armed dwarves on tuesdays if he wants. The "price" is merely an offer to treat, that's all. Did you read the responses above? Did you digest the general gist of it?