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"Not Labeled for Individual Sale"?
Sometimes I see the statement "Not Labeled for Individual Sale" or "Not for individual retail sale" and other similar messages on snack bars and small individually wrapped food items.
I got to thinking: What do they actually mean by that?
Is it actually illegal to sell them individually? Or are they simply saying that you need to label them appropriately if you intend to sell them individually?
...of course usually the items are so small any sale would be a rip off anyway...but I was just curious...
So it IS technically illegal then?
I'm not actually doing this, I was on lunch and had a snack bar...
So if someone were really determined to sell them individually for whatever reason, is there steps they would be able to take to do so legally? (e.g. make nutrition labels?)
2 Answers
- ?Lv 57 years agoFavorite Answer
It means they dont have the labeling on the actual individual packages but rather on the exterior carton. Therefore are illegal to individually because they will break FDA regulations.
No one is going to arrest you for doing this though.
- 7 years ago
The main reason for labelling them as such is that the manufacturer doesn't want them to be sold individually - it has nothing to do with law, or labelling regulations, etc. So for example Coke might sell an individual can for, say, 99 cents, because someone purchasing just one can isn't going to worry about that sort of price. And in order to get the bulk of the profit, they will sell that can to a small shop for maybe 70 cents.
But if they tried to sell you a six-pack for $5.90 you probably wouldn't pay that, so they sell it for $3.50, which makes each can more like 59 cents. But now they have a problem, because a shopkeeper could go and buy a six-pack form a supermarket for less (per can) than Coke wants to sell him the individual cans, and he could just split the pack and sell them one by one. So to stop this from happening, Coke writes on the multi-pack cans 'not to be sold individually', to make the shopkeeper look bad if he tries to sell them like that.