Retailers warned to display price details

Victor

This means everything in a shop must have a price displayed. Further information http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=794360#

Retailers warned to display price details
From:ireland.com
Friday, 28th February, 2003

The Director of Consumer Affairs has warned retailers that a 20-strong team of inspectors from her office would be implementing a new law obliging retailers to display the prices of all products on sale to consumers or face fines of up to €3,000.

The law, which comes into force tomorrow [Saturday 1 March 2003], will also oblige retailers to display a unit price for all goods sold by quantity or weight.

"The new regulations mean that all goods sold by quantity must be unit priced by reference to the metric units of a kilogram and a litre so that consumers will be able to readily measure value for money when trying to decide between, for instance, a 400gm pack and a 550gm pack," Ms Carmel Foley said at Waterford Institute of Technology yesterday.

"In that situation, the equivalent price per kilo will have to be shown for both packs. Retailers will face penalty fines of up to €3,000 per offence for failure to display prices clearly in line with these new regulations."

Urging consumers to shop around and examine unit prices, Ms Foley added: "Businesses have had time to adapt their pricing systems to the new rules and from Saturday there will be no excuse for failing to comply. As ever, consumers should be vigilant and where they see price details not being displayed they should report this to my office.

"An inspectorate of 20 officers from the ODCA [Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs] will prioritise enforcement of this legislation from this weekend onwards and where there are breaches of the legislation we will not hesitate to prosecute.

"A fundamental part of consumer protection is the provision of information and, in particular, price information. Individual consumers can achieve a great deal by shopping around but we live in a relatively cash-rich and time-poor society. However, the telephone and Internet can also be useful when making price comparisons."

seamus

About time.

Almost every single side shop in this city (read:spar/centra) display little or no pricing on anything. It's pretty ridiculous.

BigEejit

This will really show up some of the consumer electronics places and jewellers around the country.. loads of them dont put prices on things so you will have to ask the salesman for it, who can start doing the hard sell thing to you (which bugs me) ... I personally refuse (refused - past tense now ) to buy anything that I have to ask for the price of...

Samba

pffffft, what was it a threat from the E.U which made them enforce this?


This has been the case all over Europe for I dont know how many years.


Will this also apply to Beer I wonder?

daveirl

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Victor

Originally posted by Samba
Will this also apply to Beer I wonder?

Yes, at the point of sale (not some random obscure location in the pub).

From the Regulations
6. (1) A trader shall ensure that the indication of the selling price and where appropriate, the unit price of a product offered by him or her to consumers or to prospective consumers is -
(a) unambiguous, easily identifiable as referring to that product,
(b) clearly visible and legible to prospective customers, and
(c) in proximity to the product ...

yellum

About time too. I was in the Bodega bar last night and it seems they have a price increase policy. Drinks go up in price after 11. It wasn't displayed anywhere. Dodgy practice if you ask me since people will not notice at 11 if they are intoxicated.

Victor

Originally posted by yellum
Drinks go up in price after 11.

It's quite common, they have two / three price lists in some obscure location.

Samba

I was talking more about the unit price of beer canned compared to the unit price per litre of bottled beer etc.



I have yet to see a price list in a pub

Gordon

Great news! I wonder if it'll make a difference.

Cork

I was in a shop last Thursday & no prices were displayed on a series of shelves.

I think things likr Razors have their prices displayed badly.

This move has to be welcomed.

Victor

Originally posted by Samba
I have yet to see a price list in a pub

All pubs have at least one at the door.

Originally posted by Cork
I was in a shop last Thursday & no prices were displayed on a series of shelves.

The new rules only apply from today (Saturday). The old rules were much looser.

Lenny

I hate the shop i work in and myboss
I am gona report my own workplace.

Makaveli

bah thanks to this I get to spend 8 hours restacking shelves so that the products are perfectly in line with the prices and I also get to go around and scan the barcode of every product so we can print new lables, because the old ones didnt have price per kilo/ltr whatever.
Good in the long run yeah, but a pain in the ass for me.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Lenny
I hate the shop i work in and myboss
I am gona report my own workplace.

Looking for a permanent unpaid holiday?

eddhorse

whats the story with this Celebguy_dv putting that crap on all the threads???

sceptre

Originally posted by eddhorse
whats the story with this Celebguy_dv putting that crap on all the threads???

He's been removed in a DeVore surgical strike

Lenny

Originally posted by Barry Aldwell
Looking for a permanent unpaid holiday?

You trying to say I'm gona get sacked.. ? I don't really care , I'm avaible for a new job if anyone needs me*


part time.

Samba

All pubs have at least one at the door.

Which imo is not enough and most pubs I have been to recently I have seen no sign of this.


Are they also meant to Display the fact that after a certain hour they are going to charge you more for the pint?


Or even as an example The Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire, pints are cheaper during the week then on weekends?????


Could this be related to the fact that there are more staff and Bouncers on the doors, quite possibly yes from a business aspect.

But what is the law in relation to consumer affairs on this subject?

I know late bars do it for the extended bar times and the more expensive license, but this pub in question does not even have one.

and are allowed to do so, publicans have it so god damn easy in this country it is sickening and the only people to blame are the Irish drinkers for not giving a sh!t about it, all they care about is the pint sitting infront of them.


Which brings us to another point, Flouride in our water supplies!

Victor

Originally posted by Samba
Are they also meant to Display the fact that after a certain hour they are going to charge you more for the pint?

They should display this.

Originally posted by Samba
Or even as an example The Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire, pints are cheaper during the week then on weekends?????
Could this be related to the fact that there are more staff and Bouncers on the doors, quite possibly yes from a business aspect. But what is the law in relation to consumer affairs on this subject?

It has probably more to do with supply and demand and knowing they can charge more at the weekend, the extra staff are a secondary point. Once they advertise the different prices, it would appear OK.

BigEejit

Posted by Samba
Which brings us to another point, Flouride in our water supplies!

Heh .. you should have seen the look of sheer desperation on politicians faces when they came around to my house at the last election and I started hassling them about fluoride in the water:D ... the useless feckers didnt do anything about it though:rolleyes:

Pimp Ninja

I was slightly amused to see this actually working.

The Esso garage at the junction of the Long Mile Road and the Naas Road has labels on everything. I stop in nearly every morning on my way to work. They werent there last week, or it was just me being too sleepy to notice.

Victor

I visited my local Tesco yesterday and spoke to a manager. Only about 50% of their labels complied, even though they have rotating price changes and the labels could have been changed easily over the last 3 months.

He said they have a single database of prices for the entire country and that there is no weighting of prices between stores.