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As per the lecture notes on LW-GLO (Page 30), it states that the examples of Invitations are:
An Invitation is NOT an offer, it is inviting another person to make an offer. But in the examples of invitations, it is stated that:
Goods in a supermarket, window shop etc are invitations. How are goods in a supermarkets an invitation, aren’t the price of items fixed in supermarkets??
I even watched the lecture video, but I still have not understood this. Could you please explain?
The case name, should you wish to look it up, is Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists
The price that is marked on goods in supermarkets is merely an indication of the amount that the supermarket would be prepared to accept were you to offer to but those goods
But it’s most certainly NOT an offer in itself
Imagine if it were an offer capable of being accepted and imagine the supermarket staff has made a mistake when putting a price on those goods. That would result int he supermarket having to supply those goods to you and anybody else until someone could run along to the shelf where the goods are on display and tear down the price
Read the case concerning Boots and reassure yourself that … goods in a supermarket are INVITATIONS and they are NOT OFFERS
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Thanks for the reply mike. I am going to take a look at the case study after my study session. If I still don’t understand,I will get back to you about this. Thanks!
You’re welcome – and get in touch about this or, indeed, any other matter in your law studies and I’ll get back to you
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Read the case of Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists
“Both the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court and the Court of Appeal sided with Boots. They held that the display of goods was not an offer. Rather, by placing the goods into the basket, it was the customer that made the offer to buy the goods. This offer could be either accepted or rejected by the pharmacist at the cash desk. The moment of the completion of contract was at the cash desk, in the presence of the supervising pharmacist. Therefore, there was no violation of the Act”
This part summed up my doubts. Thanks a lot for referring this to me. I also do have another question, are we going to be questioned of different case studies in the exams? for example in the Opentuition mock exams, the case of Salomon v Salomon, you asked us what the case was about, then listed various choices. Are similar questions going to be asked in the exam?
No – it’s a matter of (quite) great sadness to me that cases are no longer such an integral part of ACCA law exams – they we generally a lot of fun to teach and, as a student so many years ago, they were also a lot of fun to be taught
But, no, it’s improbable that knowledge of case names and ‘facts’ will face you in the law exam
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