StickyMicky

how the hell does this happen?

Stores recall fake toothpaste - Yahoo! News UK

try something new today

try some toothpaste with antifreeze inside it

j4ckos mate

We have a customer who makes fire alarms and counterfitters are making copies of their goods

StickyMicky

yes but how does it end up on sainsburys and boots shelves ?

pitcha44

The supermarket giant said it had written to 17,000 customers.

how do they know there addreses

StickyMicky

loyalty card customers only

Floodboy

Another example of "reputable" stores ripping off customers by buying goods as cheap as they can from grey market sources in Europe to increase their profits.

Just my own opinion

richardg

not just europe....there are some countries where i would be suspicious of anything i bought, regardless of whether that was in a supermarket, a reputable store, or a bloke on the street.

i'll let you work out where at least one of those countries is...

G-string

iTrader: (1)

China?

richs2891

Would one of those countries be a place where lots of call centers have been relocated to ? And everyone moans about as cant understand what they say ??

Richard

fatherpierre

Turkey is one of them.

Petem95

This surprised me as well! You'd expect the supermarkets to only buy from reputable suppliers or direct from the manufacturers!

Makes you wonder what else could be fake!

richs2891

The drug industry - parallel imports on well know products is a massive industry.

Richard