First Principles of Business Law

The regulation of undesirable business practices

5. Protection against unfair business practices

5.10. Multiple pricing

 

 

 

A is the owner of a grocery shop. His various goods are stacked on shelves, with the prices printed on labels displayed beneath them. A notices that tins of Bertram's Baked Beans are selling poorly. The label on the shelf shows that the price of these beans is $1.49 per tin. A puts a photograph of a can of Bertram's Baked Beans in his next advertising catalogue, with a caption saying: 'Special Offer! While stocks last - 50 cents per tin'. However A does not change the price shown on the label on the shelf where the tins of beans are stacked because, as soon as his present stocks are sold, he intends to revert to the normal price.

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(a) As long as customers are charged the special price of 50 cents per tin until A's current stocks are sold, A has not done anything that is prohibited by the ACL.

(b) By displaying different prices for the same goods, A is doing something that is prohibited by the ACL, even if he does not charge customers the higher price for the goods in question.

 

 

 

 

 
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