The Student Room Group
Reply 1
report it to the health authorities

sue em!
Well, depending on how seriously you want to take it;

a) Nothing
b) Contact your local council's H&S department
c) Blackmail them
Reply 3
Eat some, vomit, sue them.
Reply 4
Joseppi
My local Woolworths keeps selling mints which are out of date. I keep telling them and if I have bought them they offer me a refund, but they keep on selling them. What should I do?


Point out to them that, if they are out of date, they cannot be mint.

Aitch
Reply 5
Organise a boycott in protest!
Reply 6
phone trading standards
Reply 7
If they are "best before," then there's nothing you can do except not buy them or check the date before you buy them.
Reply 8
mik1w
phone trading standards

That'll do nothing I'm afraid, it's not illegal.
Reply 9
No Future
Organise a boycott in protest!


Yes! We shall never eat the mints again, and so bring down our capitalist oppressors...
Reply 10
no, if they are selling out of date stuff it is illegal
ZigZag
Eat some, vomit, sue them.



:rolleyes: :cool: :biggrin:
Reply 12
sqa7
no, if they are selling out of date stuff it is illegal

Nope.

If it's past the best before date it's legal. Only some stuff (easily perishables) have sell by dates, by which they must be um, sold by