All Dear Jac articles – Page 43
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Turn mobiles into tills
Came the query from Mary Clark: we are purely cash, but a card machine would be handy for peak times…
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Bright light on Horizon
The tide is turning for sub-postmasters caught up in nightmares with their Horizon system.
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A bolt from the blue
The morals of big businesses have been called into question lately. That came down like a big thumb on Jignesh Patel…
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Papering over the cracks
The kind (he says he’s a fan) Dilip Patel, whose Londis trades at Clapham Park in south-west London, offered feedback on two news-and-mags-related stories that I reported on two issues back. First, those soggy bundles.
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Jingle tills...jingle tills...
Jingle (hopefully) all the way. It is very good news that the government has refused to relax Sunday trading hours on December 23…
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Sitting ducks are easy hits
I’ve been contacted by two businesses which had instructed Amrit Johal over HMRC’s substantial seizures of alcohol…
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Got you by the short and curlies
Andrew and Sharon Carne’s reaction to Streamline’s cost of compliance had been similar: “What a cheek.”…
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Read clause four of the charter
An update on Naresh Chadda’s moan about his wholesaler continuing practice of increasing his order of two Irish dailies…
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It just doesn't add up
Stephen Cuthbert ‘summed’ up the dilemma of do-you/don’t-you offer PayPoint/Payzone services very well…
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Out of tune with the music
Mark Bristow says he plays no music whatsoever in his store but is annoyed to keep receiving calls from licensing bodies…
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When will supplies 'dry up'?
Raj Morker has come to dread the rain, and not for the obvious bad hair day, ruined shoes reasons…
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An all-round result
I’ve been banging on lately about newsagents being able to refer to the Press Distribution Forum for assistance…
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Flogging fags in pubs: Traygate?
You may have noticed that, in this magazine, dodgy fags are quite a big subject…
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Can you credit it?
There’s a huge amount of frustration when you know your credit rating is fine but the records show otherwise…
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The Spanish king of scams
It’s back folks: well, it never really went away: European City Guide (ECG), aka Industry and Commerce. Since it has 16 other names to my knowledge, it’s hard to keep track of them
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Splitting up - it's hard sometimes
Roy Gudka emailed to ask about the rules on splitting multipacks on both Coca-Cola and sweets
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Pithy patter down the line
I got a mid-afternoon phone call that I wasn’t expecting. The guy said, very cheerily and chattily: “Hi Jacqueline, it’s Neil (I think he said) from Unicom. It’s been a while. How are things with you?”
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Manila flavoured milk
Roger Dicker had to go further afield than he imagined when Dairy Crest switched his milk supply to a new depot
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Not worth a packet
My regular correspondent Hitendra Patel, rang from his Costcutter in Romford to tell me that he had just conducted “a small footfall survey on my parcel service”