Question

Barbara was a regular shopper at Egeeay Supermarket, which was part of a large nationwide supermarket chain. She was there at least once a week and sometimes more often if the specials were really good.

When Barbara was there this week, she slipped on some grapes in the pet-food section in aisle 3, slipping and falling, and breaking her ankle. The store manager was not sure how the grapes got there or how long they had been there, but store policy was to do checks every 15 minutes of the floor in the fruit section. The store manager indicated that there were a number of spillages every week in the green grocery section of the store.

The store owner wishes to know:

1. b) If they do, has it breached that duty of care? (3.5 marks, maximum 200 words)

Answer 1

It has breached that responsibility of upkeep. The intention here is that the care the supermarket administer had to take was to avert any rationally anticipatable damage. There should have been a sign at along the pet-food section in lane 3 walkway which specifies the rate of recurrence of slipping by the customers as they shop and to make them aware and take practical care as they shop around. This is an duty and because the management of the supermarket botched to safeguard it, it lead to a anticipatable harm. They had breached the duty of care.