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fights at a 99p shop

golfaddick
golfaddick Posts: 33,719
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I think I read it all now. Police were called to a 99p shop in Wrexham when fights broke out because staff had started putting the prices back up after having a "half price closing down sale"

Yes, that's right - people were fighting staff & other customers because the price of ALL goods were going up from 50p to 99p !!!!!!

ffs - what has this world come to !!
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    edited January 2014
    oh those North Welshies .. silly as leeks look you !!!
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    What has this world come to???
    Desparation. People are desperately poor.

  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,867
    Misread the title and thought this was RyanAir's latest venture.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Someone should open a 49p shop...............................in Wales.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    Curb_It said:

    What has this world come to???
    Desparation. People are desperately poor.

    To a certain extent yes but desperately poor? Don't think so Curb_It... just don't invent a time machine and go back to the 1920's will you!

    Pure greed and a lack of class, morals and self respect. And here speaks someone on £72 a week JSA and living in the back end of nowhere on the charity of my brother and sister in law.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,652
    Not bothered by how much they cost. I don't play darts.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,006
    Anything weird or trampy happens in Wales.

    Strange place. Strange people.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    I see desperately poor looking people round woolwich. and the queue for the foodbank suggests it.

    Unfortunately not everyone has family to help them out.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited January 2014
    soapy_jones said:


    a lack of class, morals and self respect. .

    Shopping in a 99p Shop you mean?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    Wheresmeticket? said:

    soapy_jones said:


    a lack of class, morals and self respect. .

    Shopping in a 99p Shop you mean?
    No kicking off in a 99p shop because the 50p sale has finished. Nothing wrong with 99p shops...

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    we're a bit more upmarket in Grimsby .. we got POUND shops so there .. we be well posh
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    I bought a pumice stone from one once because the boots in Lewisham were charging a bloody fiver. I'm sure it gave me a fungal infection. Or it might have just been poverty rubbing off on me....
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    I dream of opening a 98p shop. Undercut the opposition is my business plan.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    ^^ could have been a second hand (or foot) one
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,247
    Absurdistan said:

    I dream of opening a 98p shop. Undercut the opposition is my business plan.

    They already exist
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    shirty5 said:

    Absurdistan said:

    I dream of opening a 98p shop. Undercut the opposition is my business plan.

    They already exist
    97p then.

  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,983
    Absurdistan said:

    shirty5 said:

    Absurdistan said:

    I dream of opening a 98p shop. Undercut the opposition is my business plan.

    They already exist
    97p then.

    My 96p shop will soon see you off
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    I once had to break up a fight between 2 rather large Jamaican ladies who were fighting over the last cabbage patch doll (remember them) in a well known high street retailers .. the ladies were unscathed but the C P D didn't pull through
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    IdleHans said:

    Absurdistan said:

    shirty5 said:

    Absurdistan said:

    I dream of opening a 98p shop. Undercut the opposition is my business plan.

    They already exist
    97p then.

    My 96p shop will soon see you off
    Since all my stock comes from China using slave labour, I've checked my margins (assuming the govt will provide a cost free workforce) I will beat your 96p with the 95p shop.

  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573
    I always miss the bargains.

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,896
    There is an 89p shop in Ilford.

    Made a killing at Christmas as bought vouchers for pound land there.
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    To fill in the gaps on this story, it appears that it was a closing down sale as the shop lease was expiring and they couldn't renew it.

    At the last moment the landlord agreed to extend it and the store manager called off the sale halfway through trading hours. The problem was that the store was packed with people that'd come through the doors and filled their baskets when the "Closing down sale" signs were still up in the window. They got to the tills and the prices had doubled compared to what they expected to pay. I don't blame them for kicking-off.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,722
    How can a 99p item be on sale at half price be 50p? I think trading standing should be knocking on the shop door.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,400
    MrOneLung said:

    There is an 89p shop in Ilford.

    Made a killing at Christmas as bought vouchers for pound land there.

    Admin - Can we get a BOOO button please
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    F-Blocker said:

    To fill in the gaps on this story, it appears that it was a closing down sale as the shop lease was expiring and they couldn't renew it.

    At the last moment the landlord agreed to extend it and the store manager called off the sale halfway through trading hours. The problem was that the store was packed with people that'd come through the doors and filled their baskets when the "Closing down sale" signs were still up in the window. They got to the tills and the prices had doubled compared to what they expected to pay. I don't blame them for kicking-off.

    Against the law. Signs offering 50p per item are an "invitation to treat" so once the customer offered their 50p there is an implied contract.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    I recall a fight at ikea in wembley where a disappointed shopper attacked someone who had beat him to a bargain £5 sofa, and tried to steal said seating. Not sure why they did not wait and steal a full price sofa.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    harveys gardener said:

    F-Blocker said:

    To fill in the gaps on this story, it appears that it was a closing down sale as the shop lease was expiring and they couldn't renew it.

    At the last moment the landlord agreed to extend it and the store manager called off the sale halfway through trading hours. The problem was that the store was packed with people that'd come through the doors and filled their baskets when the "Closing down sale" signs were still up in the window. They got to the tills and the prices had doubled compared to what they expected to pay. I don't blame them for kicking-off.

    Against the law. Signs offering 50p per item are an "invitation to treat" so once the customer offered their 50p there is an implied contract.
    It would not be an impled contract, it'd be an actual contract. But if the punter hadn't got to the till and handed over their 50p I don't think that the contract is completed.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    Mortimerician said:

    harveys gardener said:

    F-Blocker said:

    To fill in the gaps on this story, it appears that it was a closing down sale as the shop lease was expiring and they couldn't renew it.

    At the last moment the landlord agreed to extend it and the store manager called off the sale halfway through trading hours. The problem was that the store was packed with people that'd come through the doors and filled their baskets when the "Closing down sale" signs were still up in the window. They got to the tills and the prices had doubled compared to what they expected to pay. I don't blame them for kicking-off.

    Against the law. Signs offering 50p per item are an "invitation to treat" so once the customer offered their 50p there is an implied contract.
    It would not be an impled contract, it'd be an actual contract. But if the punter hadn't got to the till and handed over their 50p I don't think that the contract is completed.
    this .. an invitation to treat is NOT a contract until 'consideration' is accepted by the offerer .. in this case 50p goes into the till
  • Jodaius
    Jodaius Posts: 562
    edited January 2014
    harveys gardener said:

    F-Blocker said:

    To fill in the gaps on this story, it appears that it was a closing down sale as the shop lease was expiring and they couldn't renew it.

    At the last moment the landlord agreed to extend it and the store manager called off the sale halfway through trading hours. The problem was that the store was packed with people that'd come through the doors and filled their baskets when the "Closing down sale" signs were still up in the window. They got to the tills and the prices had doubled compared to what they expected to pay. I don't blame them for kicking-off.

    Against the law. Signs offering 50p per item are an "invitation to treat" so once the customer offered their 50p there is an implied contract.
    Common misconception but not true. An invitation to treat does not in any way create an obligation to sell. See http://www.findlaw.co.uk/law/small_business/business_contracts/500564.html

    Deliberate false advertising is illegal (e.g. putting up 50p signs with no intention of ever selling the items at 50p), but a change of prices due to a genuine change in circumstances like this is unlikely to be covered.

    Having said all that it's incredibly poor management on behalf of the store - comparing how much they would have 'lost' from letting it run for the rest of the day, against the reputational damage and lost customers across the whole chain.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    guinnessaddick said:

    How can a 99p item be on sale at half price be 50p? I think trading standing should be knocking on the shop door.


    Or the teachers are slacking in Wales. Oops wrong thread.

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