Can I Add Branded Products to My Baskets?
Posted on November 6, 2008
Filed Under Products and Supplies
Joy asks:
“Do we have to obtain consent from the various vendors in order to include their products in our baskets?”
When you buy products from wholesale sources, those sources provide you with items that need no permission for basket inclusion.
If you’re referring to products from vendors such as Hershey’s, Bath and Body Works, and Trader Joe’s, the answer is also “no.”
The only time there might be a problem is if you open the goods and repackage them.
Designers keep products sealed in its original packaging, touching the plastic, can, or jar and never directly touching the product unless your facility is licensed by your local board of health.
Home-based facilities cannot get such licensing, while commercial spaces can apply for a food handler’s license.
You are free to add anyone’s goods within your gift basket as long as it’s included the way it was packaged when you received it.
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I have a question in addition to Joy’s question about putting branded products in our baskets; my question is, “Can we put the baskets with the branded products on our website?”
Yes, Marcia, that is permissible.
Hello, Shirley. I had a follow-up to Joy’s question as well. I apologize if this question is silly, as I am a complete newbie to the gift basket business. What if I wanted to include items from an iconic specialty food store that might be protective of their brand? A Zabar’s (an oft-written about NYC-based grocer), let’s say. Do I need their permission to resell their goods? What if my baskets were also to include items from some of their competitors?
Julie,
Like Joy, what you ask is permissible. These firms will not have a problem with you adding their items to your baskets.