Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

Original poster

Formula on offer in B&M - how?

52 replies

Katz · 04/02/2010 11:56

I had thought discounting infant formula was not allowed but obviously is www.hotukdeals.com/item/600911/heinz-big-900g-tub-of-infant-formul hotukdeals

Not debating formula v's breast just would have thought that 900g of formula for 69p would not be allowed.

OP posts:
CrosswordGeek · 04/02/2010 12:07

Hmmm.

Copied from the International Code

? All forms of product advertising and promotion are prohibited.
? Promotional devices such as discounts and special displays at the retail level are prohibited.

:/

confusedfirsttimemum · 04/02/2010 12:08

Err, it's not allowed!

Umami · 04/02/2010 12:13

Contact Baby Milk Action?

StealthPolarBear · 04/02/2010 12:14

afaik it's not
posts on that thread are ignorant or full of typos!
(please no one check mine recently)

weegiemum · 04/02/2010 12:16

This is illegal, but I'm not sure how you deal with it.

nancy75 · 04/02/2010 12:17

i think this is allowed, this shop appears to be a clearance outlet (i have never heard of the shop but guess it is a poundland type thing?) if this is the case they have probably bought a limited amount of the stock and can sell it at whatever price they wish, it is not actually discounted as they have never sold it for the higher price and they will not be seeling it for the higher price in future, so it is not classed as a promotion.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 12:18

The purple tub is Farleys Follow on - so is exempt from those regulations.

No idea why it is so cheap though - it would worry me...

Original poster
Katz · 04/02/2010 12:19

i declined posting on the hotukdeals thread on the topic - although it does highlight the how some people just don't get formula is derived from cows milk. but i suppose the website os to advertise bargains which i guess a tin of formula at 69p is.

OP posts:
nancy75 · 04/02/2010 12:19

even if it were first milk it would still be legal i think.

Tamarto · 04/02/2010 12:21

OP of offer thread said that it was 0-6months?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 12:23

Ah just remembered

They changed Farleys to Heinz Nurture

So maybe this is a joblot of old stock.

octopusinabox · 04/02/2010 12:33

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

StealthPolarBear · 04/02/2010 12:36

chemicals I think - hence "formula"

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 12:39

Well actually it isn't 'cows milk' it is based on cows milk protein...

What issue do you have with that?

octopusinabox · 04/02/2010 13:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

ruddynorah · 04/02/2010 13:57

love the comments

ruddynorah · 04/02/2010 14:02

'i wouldn't want to feed my baby a stranger's milk' i guess she knows the cows who produce her baby's milk then? daft

tiktok · 04/02/2010 14:12

It's certainly against the WHO code, but that has no legal force in the UK/

It is, however, against the UK law, too:

www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20073521_en_1#l1g25

It does not matter if the outlet has sold formula before (this is an entirely different set of regs from the ones which govern 'sale' prices).

Trading Standards are the people to enforce this, but good luck with that....

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 14:21

tiktok - do read the thread before breezing in with your statistics.

tiktok · 04/02/2010 14:59

I read the whole thread.

I always do.

I did not post statistics.

I don't know what you are talking about.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 15:06

It's follow On

And despite the ethics of the free for all for follow on marketing, is actually perfectly legal.

Hence your post is pointless.

tialys · 04/02/2010 15:08

I read the posts in the link, and a couple of times they said it was formula for 0-6months.
Where does it say it was follow on?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 15:11

I have no idea...but follow on milk is the purple one.

As others have said ...the posters over their are ignorant!? ...maybe they are wrong.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 04/02/2010 15:12

THERE, natch

CrosswordGeek · 04/02/2010 15:14

The woman who posted the thread stated it was 0-6 month milk. Twice. There was no mention of it being follow on milk whatsoever.

Although, if I did bottlefeed, I would be worried about giving my child anything that was that discounted, personally.