Ok, I know some of you guys are studying law/lawyers so I've got a question for ya.
May sound a bit weird but hey.....
anway mum was gonna order some fish from a seafood shop for christmas but the owner said that she had to order a minimum of $100 worth when she only wanted about $30 worth. Are you allowed, as a shopkeeper to have a minimum amount for which you will order stock?
Cheers

I assume, if it's your shop, you can do what you goddam feel like hhaha

what was your mum trying to buy?

if she was trying to buy a relatively uncommon fish, it'd be stupid for the fishmonger to buy a $100 box if the remaing $70 of it is just gonna sit in his freezer untill it goes off

It's like fish n chip shops with their minimum chips

I think it was just some trout, which really isn't that uncommon.

it also depends on how much of that trout the shop sells

no, its not illegal

a shop does not HAVE to sell anything, they choose to.

your mum will probalby never go back there, so its not great for business to turn customers away, even if you wont make any money off the sale. but still, its his business, his shop.

Yes perfectly legal.... they have to justify economics However, sometimes it's not the shop, but the actual person they get it off, the shop usually has to buy a minimum off the catcher - or whatever, so like he wants some huge amount of fish he don't like selling sitting around to rot!
Aaron

we have similiar rules at my work.
it can be difficult to understand unles you've been involved in purchasing for a company.
our suppliers won't ship less than $300-500 (at our cost, before tax) because of the time, paperwork, and freight involved, it's not worthwhile to them.
hey're geared up for a few big sales, not lots of tiny ones.
they also may choose to only sell by a carton, so if someone wants 1 item, they either need to wait until we get a carton's worth of orders for the same item, or they buy the whole carton.
if the customer gets cocky, i suggest that they can purchase one item, at the price of an entire carton!

It might give you the craps, but you have to understand how big companys work, it is a fcuk around for them to get 1 thing for every person,
slack, but thats the way it is