JASMINE AND SUPERLOW SUPERMARKETS’ CASE
‘Grand opening – 9 a.m. October 1st $200 cash reward to our first customer’. This was Superlow Supermarkets’ advertisement in the local newspaper on the 1st of September. However, Jasmine arrives at the store at 7 a.m. on the 1st of October and sees a different notice, ‘Our management team regrets that the offer of $200 cash to the first customer has been withdrawn, but will be replaced by a $200 gift card to spend in the store today only’. She enters the store at 9 a.m. and asks for her $200, but the manager says she can only get the $200 gift card.
Regardless of Superlow supermarkets making a written promise to any of its first customers to show up on the 1st of October, and withdrawing the sign of the $200 cash reward and replacing it with a $200 gift card to be spent only in the store, is not a breach of contract (FindLaw Attorney Writers, 2017, N.P). Superlow Supermarkets, by replacing the promise with another is therefore not obliged to pay the $200 cash to Jasmine. This is because the money should be used for the benefit of the store being it was a new branch. Giving the reward in the form of payment might entitle Jasmine to use the cash anywhere and not necessarily within the Superlow Supermarkets.
Jasmine, therefore, should accept the $200 gift card and use it within the store to purchase any item of her choice. This is because when the Superlow Supermarket made its offer, no contract had been made, and the management, which is the Offeror, was eligible to change the terms of its offer (FindLaw Attorney Writers, 2017, N.P). Jasmine must not assume that the offer must remain open indefinitely since the Supermarkets’ management is free to revoke the offer at any time before any customer arrives. Jasmine has no legal power to form a contract, and it is in her best interest to accept the new offer of a $200 gift card.
Reference List
FindLaw Attorney Writers., the 30th of August 2017. Contract Laws. Retrieved the 18th of April 2020 from https://corporate.findlaw.com/business-operations/contracts-law.html.