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The case that Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Ltd established that self-service system is an invitation to treat instead of an offer. In the case, there is a question when and where there is an offer. In other word, we should make clear which act could be regard as an offer .<\/p>\n
In a transaction, a simple offer could be a specific word such that A said to B, \u201cI want use 5 dollars to buy this pen.” or an order form written on the paper. But in this case, we can not find the offer easily because of the new layout of the trade that self-service system. The most simple example of the self-service system is the supermarket, you can find it almost anywhere in the city nowadays. The system is new at that time when the case happend, the meaning of the \u2018self-service\u2019 is that the goods are put on the shelves or orther places in the store and customers could choose the goods which they want to buy and pay for all what they get from the store at the cashier when leave the store. In this process, there must be an offer but it doesn\u2019t happen through an intelligible form. So, how did it happen?<\/p>\n
To deal with the problem, we should make clear the meaning and character of the offer and invitation of treat and find out the difference between them and use these to analyse the case we mentioned above to get a reasonable conclusion. Let\u2019s start with the offer.<\/p>\n