Newspaper Advertising.

[mrspirite]

hope i'm on right page.a couple of weeks ago,the sun newspaper was carrying a front page full advertisement for Iceland..my wife works in a food retailers,and her job in a morning is to display newspapers..when the shop manager arrived,he ordered her to take the Iceland advert off all the copies of the sun,and bin them,she did so reluctantly..am I right in thinking that Iceland had paid for this advertising,and he has no rights to refuse to sell papers with advertising on.the manager controls 2 shops,and he did the same at both shops..thanx in advance

[Peter Pedant]

no you are not right
there is no law that says mr X mgr of A ltd has to sell diddly squat basically
( unless there is a contract that he does etc )

[paddywak]

That sort of advertising really annoys me,I usually remove it and leave it in the shop.

[mrspirite]

that's told me then.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, I empty all the Sun Life over 50s plans and other leaflets out of my TV mag and leave them on the shelf or hand to staff to recycle

[wolf63]

was the advert actually part of the newspaper or was it an insert? I dump most of the inserts too.

[Baldric]

// the sun newspaper was carrying a front page full advertisement //

[Buenchico]

The manager was only falling into line with what the major supermarkets effectively do anyway.

Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's et al won't sell newspapers with 'wrapper' ads for their competitors, so there are special print runs (without the 'wrapper' ads), distributed through Menzies, delivered to the big supermarkets.

[JF85]

I would have thought the shopkeeper has a contract with the distributor to sell the 'paper as supplied. While I find the wraparound covers annoying, I would be indignant if I thought my newsagent was picking and choosing what to sell me.

[Peter Pedant]

after hillsborough alot of newsagents in the 'Pule refused to sell the Sun

the sales plunged by as many as three
and the Sunny Sun commented they didnt realise that many people could read there - ter daah !

[naomi24]

//after hillsborough alot of newsagents in the 'Pule refused to sell the Sun//

I think that’s quite different. A shop can choose to sell a product or not, but I’m not sure it is entitled to modify a product, for example selling separate packs of sweets that are originally packaged to be sold in multiples – or splitting multi packs of cigarettes that are not meant to be split and sold individually.

[Buenchico]

Naomi:

The topic of shops splitting multi-packs has come up many times on AB. It's perfectly legal and the only action that the manufacturer can take if it happens is to refuse to supply stock to that retailer. (Given that small retailers get their stocks from local wholesalers, that's clearly impractical anyway).

The only exception would be if only the outer packaging carried information about things like 'sell by' dates or food allergens and the packaging on the individual items didn't.

Splitting bulk packs of cigarettes (e.g to sell individual packets of 20, rather than a multi-pack of 200) is similarly lawful as long as the individual packs carry the necessary health warnings and comply with all labelling legislation. (Splitting packs of 20 cigarettes, to sell them individually or in tens, is illegal though because the law prohibits sales of fewer than 20 cigarettes at a time)

[goodgoalie]

Ah yes, I can remember once or twice buying a 'tipped single'. Wasn't there a packet of 5 Bristol, too?

[naomi24]

Oh, is that so chris? I only know that I’ve seen multi packs labelled ‘not to be sold separately’, or words to that effect.

[woofgang]

my Newsagent takes all the loose rubbish out of papers before he puts them on the shelf or sends them out for delivery. My local supermarkets have bins for it.

[Buenchico]

Woodbines came in 5s, GG
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/82/5f/6d/825f6d10eaa03991a96c5f8f04176df0.jpg
so other brands probably did too.

I can remember visiting my 'aunt' Joan (who was actually just a friend of my mum) when I was a kid. She used to get annoyed that the local shopkeeper wouldn't always sell two Senior Service to her younger son because, at the age of 6, he was considered too young to buy them for his mother. So she had to wait until her older son came in from playing in the street, so that she could get her nicotine fix. Being all of 8 years old he could always get served with ciggies ;-)

[goodgoalie]

I can remember being sent out to buy 10 Guards for my Mum - couldn't have been much older than 11 or 12; think they might have been 1s 10d

[goodgoalie]

Strange thing, prices. Later this month it will cost 14 shillings to send a letter! Imagine telling someone in wartime Britain that.

[Peter Pedant]

// Later this month it will cost 14 shillings to send a letter! Imagine telling someone in wartime Britain that.//

yeah I noticed that - the past is a different country

IN lundy in the thirties - it was possible to tell your hubby you would late home for dinner with a ha'penny post card
It does now seem incredible

[Canary42]

My experience of multi-packs being broken up is negative. I came across 4 toilet rolls in a multi-pack, and the packing covering the end one bore the legend "this one free". I tore the packet open and took the free end one to the supermarket checkout, only to get a refusal to let me take it away for nothing.

[Everhelpful]

GG,Domino cigarettes came in packs of 6 also.