12,000 fine: supermarket bent over spilled yogurt

In Spain, the supermarket owners would pay a tidy sum to the visitor because of spilled yogurt on the floor, which led to a drop in women.

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The court ordered the owners of Cantabria a supermarket to pay the woman 12,700 euros.

This amount is intended to compensate for the physical and moral damage due to the fact that the woman fell, slipping on yogurt, which has been spilled on the floor of the dairy department.

The court ruling said that the supermarket staff failed to fulfill its responsibilities: the remnants of spilled yogurt were not removed in time. Thus was created a risk to the public.

This situation can not be considered force majeure, as in supermarkets always something broken or spilled. The owners of the supermarket tried to challenge the decision of the court, shifting the blame on the victim.

According to them, the woman fell only because of their carelessness, the spilled yogurt because you can just ignore. However, the court insisted on his opinion that if a supermarket is open to the public, workers must take "all measures to ensure no risk to the public"; buyers come to the supermarket, "not for pleasure but for something to buy and spend their money," so that all safety requirements must be adhered to.