individual sales of "Multi-packs"

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what is the situation where a shop is selling individually items which are clearly from a multipack and have "not to be sold individually" printed on the label. It sounds to me like they are buying multipacks cheaper but breaking them up and selling the individual items on at full price.
 
Kine said:
By "legal" you basically mean not illegal (I know there the same thing, but baiscally my brain works in a funny way....:))
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No , by legal I mean legal.

As in allowed, and there is no law preventing it.
 
You could probably inform the manufacturer who would be concerned to know I would imagine.....they shop in question may stop getting said multi-packs at cheaper rates then?
 
I believe the main issue with selling items from a multipack is that the full nutritional information may not be printed on the individual packs - sometimes it is on the outer wrapper only. I'm not sure if it contravenes any laws about food labelling, though.
 
Lots of multipack items have "not to be sold seperatley " written on them but it doesnt stop retailers ignoring this and publicans I would imagine are huge culprits of this practice
 
It is certainly an unethical practice but not illegal in anyway.

There are problems with the individual items as mostly they do not have barcodes and may not be labelled correctly.
 
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