New Chichester Screwfix store will not sell to me.......

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Sans Bateau

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.....Not unless they have my name and address!

B&Q, the chandlers, Sainsbury's, the Shell fuel station will, so why wont Screwfix?
 
So they can send you a catalogue.

Screwfix is essentially a mailorder firm, just they have been opening trade counters like mad around the country. All part of Kingfishers new drive (inc Trade Depot etc)
 
So why didn't they say, "would you like a catalogue sir?", "we will need your name and address to send it to you and keep you updated, would you like that?"

No. Instead if I don't give them name and address I cant buy it.
 
Were you purchasing using hard cash or plastic fantastic?

If using hard cash I think it's a bit of a liberty.

However, it's their shop and their rules. There isn't any law that makes them sell goods to you. The price tickets are only an "invitation to treat"

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A shop owner displaying their goods for sale is generally making an invitation to treat (Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists [1953] 1 QB 401). They are not obliged to sell the good to anyone who is willing to pay for them, even if additional signage such as "special offer" accompanies the display of the good. (But see bait and switch.) This distinction was legally relevant in Fisher v Bell [1961] 1 QB 394, where it was held that displaying a flicknife for sale in a shop did not contravene legislation which prohibited offering for sale such a weapon. The distinction also means that if a shop mistakenly displays a good for sale at a very low price it is not obliged to sell it for that amount [1].

Generally, advertisements are invitations to treat, so the person advertising is not compelled to sell to every customer. In Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204, it was held that where the appellant advertised to sell wild birds, was not offering to sell them. Lord Parker CJ commented that it did not make "business sense" for advertisements to be offers, as the person making the advertisement may find himself in a situation where he would be contractually obliged to sell more goods than he actually owned.

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I will go back and give my company address, but I'm not rushing, going to get them worried a bit first that they have upset me. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
yup so they can send you there book through the door... high street screwfix is like shopping in argos you need the product code etc... hence the book
 
Asi recall the boots cash chemist case was brought about by having drugs on the counter that should not be sold unless by a chemist. It was held that the display was invitation to treat and just because you could pick them up and did not mean;t you had bought them.
 
A friend of mine went in to Wallmart in North Carolina and asked for a key to be cut, he was directed to the gun counter. The assistant serverd the person in front with 3 guns and then asked if he required some amo. The chap then paid for it and left. My friend then asked the assistant to cut a key at which point the assistant said "Can I see some ID please"

Only in America.
 
Actually I quite like being n Screwfixes mailing list!
They just send you a big catalogue a couple of times a year. Lots of interesting stuff to spend money on.

I keep mine in the loo!
 
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